Flying first in Alaska’s sparkling new A320 cabin amid COVID
Like many frequent fliers of yore, the pandemic clipped my wings for most of the past year. But an intra-state business trip from Seattle to... Continue Reading
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Recycled and bio-plastics: a solution to the PaxEx plastics footprint?
The passenger experience industry often considers plastics in aesthetic terms, from developing exciting new shapes, patterns and technologie... Continue Reading
Kitting has its day, as Recaro’s SWIFT seats gain A320 SFE appeal
It may have taken a global pandemic for aircraft seat “kitting” to really take off, but it appears its time has come in industry... Continue Reading
Press Release: Recaro to supply seats to Alaska Airlines’ new 737 MAXs
Recaro Aircraft Seating has received additional orders to outfit Alaska Airlines’ (Alaska) new B737 MAX aircraft with 13 shipsets of the CL4... Continue Reading
Five years on: how the A320neo is changing aviation
For many who followed the development of Airbus’ A320neo family of aircraft very closely during the first half of the 2010s, it will seem as... Continue Reading
My kingdom for a slimline: honesty and reality in PaxEx
Once COVID-19 vaccinations enable safe, sensible and responsible travel, there’s a generational opportunity for some airlines to change tack... Continue Reading
Managing supply chain quality in complicated times
Achieving and maintaining high quality aircraft seat manufacturing is a complicated job, with today’s mobile, social and vocal airline passe... Continue Reading
Emirates’ premium economy shows upgrades but no category shift
There was a time in the distant past — by which, at the end of 2020, we mean any time before the COVID-19 crisis — when Emirates’ adoption o... Continue Reading
Press Release: Avolon orders Recaro BL3530 seats for A320s, 737NGs
Avolon has agreed with Recaro Aircraft Seating an order for twenty shipsets of the SPRINT seat, consisting of fifteen (15) shipsets for use ... Continue Reading
Clearing the longhaul narrowbody #PaxEx perception hurdles
Longhaul narrowbody flights — the ability to fly long and thin routes at a time when many routes will be increasingly thin — are going to be... Continue Reading
Press Release: Wizz Air selects ELeather to dress 32,000 seats
Wizz Air and ELeather have entered a new partnership to dress 32,000 seats across 146 new Airbus aircraft, entirely in sustainable, high-per... Continue Reading
Recaro aims at density, quality with revamped CL6720 suite
When premium class travel demand returns after COVID-19, the landscape will look very different: fewer first class products, fewer older and... Continue Reading
Horizon scan: how PaxEx is changing during COVID and afterwards
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an enormous variety of solutions have been proposed to reduce the risk of the spread of the SARS-C... Continue Reading
Recaro builds space to grow and new HQ flam, crash testing
It’s a running joke in the aircraft seating world that the factories that build aircraft seats — products that are high technology, feature ... Continue Reading