Stelia unveils integrated Rendez-vous staggered super-business seat
After débuting its new premium staggered seat Rendez-Vous in the secret backroom areas of the Aircraft Interiors Expo this June, Airbus’ sub... Continue Reading
Author: John Walton
With premium economy soft product Delta poses sustainability questions
Delta Air Lines is shaking up its Premium Select soft product, with new amenity kits and sustainable tableware repositioning the premium eco... Continue Reading
American unveils solid but muted new business and business-plus suites
With its new Flagship Suite, American Airlines is the last US carrier to finally remove longhaul first, moving to the industry trend of ambi... Continue Reading
What the design of Virgin’s new A330neo business means for industry
In the couple of months since Virgin Atlantic unveiled its new business class for its forthcoming A330-900neo fleet, your author has been mu... Continue Reading
Geven Essenza sparkles as Austrian A320 Eurobusiness
It has been five years since your author first wrote about Italian seatmaker Geven’s Essenza slimline in these pages, and after multiple on-... Continue Reading
Airbus’ A350 NPS variant: lower weight, more MTOW—and bigger cabin
Airbus is planning to transition the A350-900 and -1000 to what it calls a “new production standard” (NPS) between now and 2024, reducing ai... Continue Reading
Inside Austria’s next-gen Nightjet sleeper trains
Within the next three years, a fleet of nearly three dozen Austrian Railways (ÖBB) Nightjet sleeper trains will be whizzing their way throug... Continue Reading
Say yes, says ACJ TwoTwenty development head Florentina Viscotchi
When Airbus’ head of A220 corporate jet development Florentina Viscotchi was considering studying aviation engineering, family and friends a... Continue Reading
Lufthansa’s new booking path Green Fares beg green questions
Airlines are testing out a variety of initiatives to increase the amount of passengers choosing to pay to offset the carbon emitted by their... Continue Reading
Contemplating the latest set of #PaxEx questions from Aviointeriors
Italian seatmaker Aviointeriors is always up for a new concept. Its history of bringing ideas like the saddle seat Skyrider to passenger exp... Continue Reading
Doors light the fire of business mini-suite innovation
This northern hemisphere summer we’ve seen a number of new business class doored mini-suites either break cover, be shown for the first time... Continue Reading
Adient’s new 737 Ascent business and business-plus shine
Premium business class seats offering direct aisle access for every passenger have been relatively slow to arrive to the narrowbody world. T... Continue Reading
Emirates is the latest airline to focus on vegan cuisine
For many airline catering designers, COVID-19 required an urgent about-turn to how inflight meals were conceived, produced, structured, and ... Continue Reading
Celebrating cabin consistency on a very old A321-100 and early A320neo
On a recent Lufthansa connection from Hamburg to Lyon via Frankfurt, I had the opportunity to fly on one of the oldest operating Airbus narr... Continue Reading
ITA demonstrates the value and pitfalls of the generic widebody cabin
Analysing the passenger experience of a start-up airline — particularly one launched as quickly as ITA Airways, the successor to Italian nat... Continue Reading