Tangerine designs sleek new E10 Shinkansen train, new Privacy class
The opening of the Tohoku Shinkansen in 1982, and its many subsequent extensions and branches, brought the northernmost third of Japan’s mai... Continue Reading
Author: John Walton
Air France’s new Stelia first class: a paragon of elegant simplicity
Right after this year’s Paris Fashion Week, it’s the turn of Air France’s new first class seat to head down the runway, and it would receive... Continue Reading
Air Rest: the standard-setter for recliner-plus business
The growth in mid-haul and long-haul flying by single-aisle aircraft, especially the A321neo and its LR/XLR variants, means that the importa... Continue Reading
Cathay’s Aria: balancing bleeding-edge IFE and seat technology
As part of its excellent refinement of the outward-facing herringbone in its Aria seat, Cathay Pacific has made a step-change in technology ... Continue Reading
Hong Kong Express bursts with local flavour, just like its menu
Passengers have a wealth of choices when flying the three hours between Hong Kong and Japan, from full service airlines like Cathay, ANA and... Continue Reading
Cathay refines mini-suite category to near-perfection with Aria
In 2010, Cathay Pacific defined a generation of business class seats with JPA Design: the inward-facing herringbone Cirrus seat originally f... Continue Reading
How airlines can move beyond protein-veggie-starch in business
Your author has been comparing a variety of business class menus recently, and among some genuinely appetising innovations is a growing real... Continue Reading
“Popular on this route” option leads to IFE discovery
Airline passengers usually have one of X problems with inflight entertainment (IFE) systems: there’s not enough variety of content, the user... Continue Reading
The “magic triangle” problem with narrowbody outward herringbones
When it comes to fully flat business class seats and suites with direct aisle access for narrowbody aircraft, airlines’ choices at this poin... Continue Reading
N700S for Supreme: the evolution of the latest Shinkansen
Japan’s original and still busiest bullet train route is the Tokaido Shinkansen section of the original and still principal high-speed line ... Continue Reading
The new seats, cabins and onboard products for 2025
With combined and magnifying pressures of widebody delivery delays, cabin certification issues, and seat production complications, plus the ... Continue Reading
Maxi-suite service solutions: two bells, more screens?
Late last year we wrote about some of the issues that the new generation of high-walled maxi-suites in business class raise. That article sp... Continue Reading
Lufthansa adopts modern, warm aesthetic in LHR lounge revamp
With its newly reopened Business and Senator Lounges in London Heathrow’s Terminal 2, updated ten years after the terminal’s opening, Luftha... Continue Reading
Time for airlines to get switched on to cabin lighting promises
The new Afterglow business jet retrofit cabin from JPA Design is thought-provoking — both in terms of bringing the latest materials and layo... Continue Reading
Kintetsu Railway’s “kindness” seat: an innovative inspiration
When passenger experience innovations on Japanese railways come to mind, the high-speed Shinkansen, the backbone of the nation’s comprehensi... Continue Reading