BA’s new A350 Club Suites: scores on the doors?
British Airways is at a crossroads in passenger experience, with its new Collins Aerospace Super Diamond doored mini-suites arriving on its ... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: thermoplastics
Press Release: SEKISUI appoints new VP of marketing Bernie Allen
After an intensive search for a seasoned expert, SEKISUI SPI has hired Bernie Allen as Vice President of Marketing. Innovation comes from ta... Continue Reading
Aircalin’s A330neo shines with Pacific #PaxEx
The delivery of a new Airbus A330neo is a big deal for New Caledonia, the French territory that sits in the southwest Pacific between New Ze... Continue Reading
Jamco’s quest for elegance results in upmarket new staggered seat
With the exception of some of the possible arrangements and kinematics of its Spread Your Wings seat from last year, Japanese seatmaker Jamc... Continue Reading
BA’s new Collins Club Suite opens Pandora’s Door of questions
British Airways is finally raising the standard of its Club World business class, with a doored outward-facing herringbone suite that the ai... Continue Reading
Exploring business class trends for 2019
As airlines head into 2019, a number of key trends are coinciding to make the year particularly exciting in the business class space, with d... Continue Reading
Women in Plastics make their mark in male dominated industry
With single-use plastics accumulating in oceans and on beaches, it’s easy to see why the messaging around plastic in general isn’t a wholly ... Continue Reading
A tale of two herringbones and a sleeper seat
I try to keep an eye on the Chinese market whenever possible: after all, it’s going to be the largest in the world in the not too distant fu... Continue Reading
Internally lit thermoplastics offer infinite PaxEx design palette
Airlines are increasingly designing — or asking their design partners to design — customised LED mood lighting schemes, which both show off ... Continue Reading
WestJet 787 raises bar for longhaul low-cost – and full-service – carriers
When I saw the CGI renders of WestJet’s new Boeing 787, it’s fair to say that my jaw dropped. A fully flat bed with direct aisle access for ... Continue Reading
Is the future of seatback thermoplastics really greige?
Settle down in your airline seat and look at the seatback in front of you. It’s almost certainly grey or beige. So is the armrest, and so is... Continue Reading
Podcast 056: Flight Chic talks trends in advance of AIX
Welcome to Episode 056 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest is Marisa Garcia, who has worked directly in the design and manufacturing of aircraf... Continue Reading
Four Qatar Airways flights show remarkable #PaxEx consistency
As airlines grow in size and fleet diversity, ensuring that passengers have a similar — or at least coherent — experience across different a... Continue Reading
Fast-growing Boltaron makes ambitions clear in aircraft interiors
Roughly a decade ago Boltaron’s Newcomerstown, Ohio facility held as much as a 60% market share of the plastic card stock for credit cards a... Continue Reading
Boltaron is transparent about nose-to-tail positioning on aircraft
Rockwell Collins, Thales and Honeywell are among the firms offering nose-to-tail content on board aircraft, be it avionics in the cockpit, b... Continue Reading
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