Qsuite Next Gen: raising the doors, if not the bar
FARNBOROUGH — Qatar Airways’ reveal of its new Qsuite business class seats was certainly the swankiest and most expensive of the first day o... Continue Reading
Author: John Walton
Korean Air goes deep brown with staggered business Prestige Suites 2.0
Korean Air’s new Prestige Suites 2.0 business class product has emerged, and will début on 25 July aboard the airline’s new Boeing 787-10 Dr... Continue Reading
Pocket pack cushion-blankets: a solution to waste and Mount Blankets?
HUDDERSFIELD — One of the fascinating challenges in premium classes today is what I call Mount Blankets: the collection of soft product plac... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Allegris extra-legroom seat: extra room for improvement
Returning on Lufthansa from Toronto to Munich after trying out the front-row business-plus Allegris Business Suite — full disclosure, as a g... Continue Reading
Aircraft e-enablement moves beyond ARINC 853 with i+s cabin 2.0
High above the show floors of this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg was a conference room filled with representatives from the eigh... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Allegris front-row Business Suite mostly impresses
Flying Lufthansa’s much-anticipated Allegris business class — full disclosure, as a guest of the airline — in its business-plus front-row Bu... Continue Reading
Lufthansa’s latest subsidiary, City: photocopy or innovation?
Lufthansa loves a subsidiary, from Jump to CityLine to Germanwings to Eurowings to Eurowings Europe to Eurowings Discover to Discover Airlin... Continue Reading
Texture and depth in seat design: the next boundaries for CMF
The colour, material and finish of today’s and tomorrow’s aircraft interiors need to be about more than just disguising pieces of composite ... Continue Reading
Up close in Thompson’s new Vantage seat, Nova
Tucked away at the back of the Thompson Aero Seating stand at this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo was the seatmaker’s latest product, Vantag... Continue Reading
The converging business class model: herringbone vs stagger
More than twenty years on from the first herringbone seating in business class — the original Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Suite — and almost... Continue Reading
Behind the scenes with Safran’s secret Signature no-recline seat
HAMBURG — If it feels like it’s been a while since we’ve had a properly futuristic economy class seat concept, the hidden back rooms of the ... Continue Reading
Inside Airbus’ A220 Airspace 2025 bin changes, including retrofits
HAMBURG — A year on from Airbus’ announcement that it plans to update the A220 cabin to bring it closer to the airframer’s Airspace interior... Continue Reading
Formia’s striking JAL amenity kits feature Heralbony statement art
HAMBURG — Bringing art into the cabin is often a regrettable exercise in blandness: vague abstractions in muted colours, timidity of shade, ... Continue Reading
Accessibility improvements proposed by Delta, Collins and Boeing
HAMBURG — One of the most positive trends at this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo was accessibility for disabled people: especially for wheel... Continue Reading
Panasonic/Collins MAYA seat concept: immersive or overwhelming?
HAMBURG — One of the showstoppers of the Aircraft Interiors Expo this year was MAYA, a concept business seat designed by Collins Aerospace a... Continue Reading