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Airspace cabin display at the AIX 2023 show in Hamburg. Blue LED lights accent the large overhead bins while purple LED lights highlight the grey seats.

Airbus comes full C Series circle with A220 Airspace cabin, bins

If you are old enough to remember when the spacious, bright and modern cabin on the Bombardier C Series (now Airbus A220) was part of the dr... Continue Reading

The Aviointeriors Heric business class seat on the AIX show floor is grey with maroon details and headrest. Towards the window is a simple, yet elegant, bed platform, joined by a raising legrest to create a sizeable sleeping surface.

AvioInteriors: Heric 2023 returns as a credible low-cost herringbone

There are many reasons to make AvioInteriors a stop on your annual circuit of the Aircraft Interiors Expo, and the excellent Italian espress... Continue Reading

A Recaro employee demonstrates the leg space in the Recaro X-Tend Seat on the AIX show floor.

Flip-up exit mini-seat enables density, but at what cost?

In their continuing quest for aircraft densification, airlines, airframers and seatmakers have long eyed the common EASA and FAA regulation ... Continue Reading

Virgin Atlantic A330neo at the gate. The airline's entire fleet, across aircraft types, will be equipped with Cardiosecur

Virgin Atlantic rolls out app-based CardioSecur heart ECG monitors

While onboard health and wellness sees a renaissance in terms of the food, beverages and other soft product served on board, a key part of t... Continue Reading

Recaro X-tend us being demonstrated and tested by a guest at the AIX 2023 show.

VIDEO: Recaro & Airbus reveal flip-up exit row mini-seat

A menu card is on display at the LSG + Kaelis booth during WTCE Hamburg 2023.

LSG and Kaelis join up the catering and soft product dots

Catering powerhouse LSG Group and onboard products specialists Kaelis are working in a new strategic partnership to break down barriers betw... Continue Reading

With artisanal interior reuse partnership, Soisa focuses on ESG

As the aviation supply chain seeks to demonstrate its environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials, one of the challenges is how t... Continue Reading

A display concept model of the C Suite by Airbus and Stelia. This is a business class seat in mostly grey fabrics with a beige headrest cover and sidewall detailing. This is a set of 3 showing the staggered layout.

Airbus and Stelia show off new C Suite ultra-compact narrowbody seat

One of the most compelling seats on show at the Aircraft Interiors Expo wasn’t at a seatmaker’s stand or even within an aircraft cabin mocku... Continue Reading

A sunset glow from the LEDs is lighting the ceiling and sidewall of the Boeing 777X cabin mock-up.

Hands-on with Boeing 777X’s wider cabin, big bins, new lighting

As Boeing accelerates towards its revised 2025 service introduction of the 777X versions of its venerable 777 twinjet, the airframer has ful... Continue Reading

Four staggered Vantage Duo business class seats are being displayed at AIX 2023. The seats are an mixture of grey tones with a light blue pillow.

Thompson showcases product evolution across Vantage family

For seatmakers, some Aircraft Interiors Expo years are about big showy new product releases, while other years are more about developing the... Continue Reading

Optimares SoFab business class seat is pictured in speckled grey. It is a divan-type space that allows passengers to experience different positions, without the use of actuators. The only moving parts of the entire product are a pull-out cushioned storage area.

Divine divan? Optimares SoFab persuades with comfortable simplicity

Throughout the forty-odd years that business class has existed, much of its design and development has been focussed on evolutionary and rev... Continue Reading

Two seat triples of the Falcon fully-featured economy seats. This image shows six seats from the back that have embedded IFE. One tray table is in dining position.

Mirus’ Falcon distills the essence of full featured economy

Behind closed doors at the Aircraft Interiors Expo, UK seatmaker Mirus was showing what it calls a “pre-production prototype” of its new Fal... Continue Reading

Two Quest business class seats (posited as a divorced pair) in white with a yellow pillow atop each of them.

Jamco focusses on details with updated Quest stagger

Japanese seatmaker Jamco’s Quest for Elegance seat returned to the 2023 Aircraft Interiors Expo after a four-year absence, and while the cas... Continue Reading

Air France's Opera seat by Stelia on the show floor at AIX 2023. The large business class seat is dark blue with lighter and darker thermoplastics around it.

Stelia reveals Opera herringbone for Air France A350, linefit 787s

HAMBURG — Airbus subsidiary seatmaker Stelia, in a new version of its outward-facing herringbone Opera, is making a play for the widebody he... Continue Reading

Collins Aerospace Connected Gallery is seen in this image. An overlay of various lines and icons to represent the behind the scenes connection and IoT.

Collins makes Cabin IoT play with connected galley field trials

HAMBURG — Collins Aerospace is taking a big step towards finally realising the benefits of the IoT-connected cabin with a new set of in-cabi... Continue Reading