Recaro not sleeping on success after bumper year and award wins
As economy seat specialist Recaro goes from strength to strength, with a Red Dot Product Design award for its shorthaul BL3710 slimline and ... Continue Reading
Author: John Walton
Beyond Beyoncé: in search of a post-doors model for suite privacy
Last year I coined the idea of the Beyoncé Model for updated business class seats with doors on the side giving business mini-suites: “if yo... Continue Reading
HAECO’s Meredith Frazier on the need for realistic role models in STEM
Innovation in aviation can come from the most unusual sparks of imagination, and HAECO Cabin Solutions staff engineer Meredith Frazier, who ... Continue Reading
New airline galley equipment offers better food & beverages – and IoT
When you think “galley insert”, you might think of industrial design that could charitably be described as “industrial chic”, replete with b... Continue Reading
Style & Design’s Moments seat poses fascinating questions
I wasn’t expecting to come across one of the most thought-provoking seats of the 2019 Aircraft Interiors Expo at the booth of upholsterers M... Continue Reading
airBaltic’s A220 impresses amid wetleased Munich capacity push
As capacity issues at Frankfurt Airport and a chilly relationship between Lufthansa and the airport operator bite, and in the context of an ... Continue Reading
The growing role of AIX as space for provoking collaborative thought
“Stop, collaborate and listen,” wrote recording artist Vanilla Ice in his seminal 1990 work “Ice Ice Baby”, and this principle was well and ... Continue Reading
Viasat bridges the gap to global Ka-band coverage
For airlines that want to take advantage of a single inflight connectivity provider globally, but still want Viasat’s regional Ka-band servi... Continue Reading
Jamco uses Mixed Reality tech to help on-the-fly seat fixes
As airline seats become more complex, more customized and more detailed in terms of color, material and finish, keeping them fully functiona... Continue Reading
Airbus looks for new approaches to premium seat availability problems
Earlier this month the production and capacity squeeze on premium seatmakers took a particularly unusual turn. When Airbus revealed its new ... Continue Reading
The new Safran, in Versa, replacing Cirrus with the bones of Optima
When Runway Girl Network first set eyes on Safran Seats’ new herringbone business class product, Versa, the obvious first question was to as... Continue Reading
Why Bombardier’s Atmosphère cabin skipped AIX
With deliveries of new CRJ regional jets featuring Bombardier’s updated Atmosphère cabin to Delta, American and other carriers progres... Continue Reading
HAECO’s satisfyingly transformative galley monument is a delight
As airlines continue their push towards multi-functional third spaces on the aircraft, more and more attention is being turned to dual-funct... Continue Reading
Airbus-Safran Lower Deck Pax Experience modules in firm development
Since last year and a positive reception in the market — notably in winning the Cabin Concepts category at the Crystal Cabin Awards this yea... Continue Reading
Virgin Atlantic’s A350 cabins pose fascinating PaxEx questions
While the majority of the attention around Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A350 aircraft is perhaps understandably on its doorless but nonethel... Continue Reading
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