All Systems & Interiors news – Page 112

  • News

    INTERIORS: Airbus details A350 increased seat-count options

    2015-04-13T18:14:44Z

    ​Airbus is rolling out its flexible seating initiative across its entire widebody range with the new A350 twinjet the next in line to receive the modifications.

  • News

    INTERIORS: Zodiac stays cool with new trolley

    2015-04-13T15:28:23Z

    Zodiac Aerospace has shown off a prototype of a cooled trolley which keeps in-flight meals chilled for up to 10h.

  • Diehl
    News

    INTERIORS: Diehl showcases halon-replacement extinguisher

    2015-04-13T15:24:45Z

    Diehl Aerosystems' division AOA is demonstrating its FIREX water-mist fire-suppression system for aircraft cargo compartments, which it says is the only halon replacement system to have passed all US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proof-of-concept tests.

  • News

    INTERIORS: Collins re-invigorates IFEC offer

    2015-04-13T12:35:00Z

    Rockwell Collins arrives at Aircraft Interiors hot on the heels of its recent acquisition of Pacific Avionics, building on the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-headquartered company’s portfolio of in-flight solutions.

  • News

    INTERIORS: Put the 'wonder' back into flight, urges design firm

    2015-04-13T12:34:00Z

    Decision-makers in the airline industry need to “start earlier” and have the willpower to carry their ideas through the long and challenging regulatory process, a design company specialist has told the Passenger Experience Conference in Hamburg.

  • A320 Cabin space-flex
    News

    INTERIORS: Airbus gains traction with Space-Flex concept

    2015-04-13T11:54:00Z

    Over the decades, cabin designers have become increasingly adept at squeezing a quart into a pint pot. For metric users that is the equivalent of compressing 1.136 litres into a 568ml container – well, nobody ever claimed that British Imperial measures were particularly logical, but you get the idea.

  • News

    Airbus sale of Dassault shares boosted by over-allotment takeup

    2015-04-10T17:58:57Z

    ​Airbus’s 25 March move to sell off its shareholding in Dassault Aviation has completed, with buyers taking up the full over-allotment option – lifting the total number of shares sold to 1.73 million, worth some €1.76 billion.

  • SIA 777-300
    News

    INTERIORS: Challenging the cabin orthodoxy

    2015-04-10T00:00:00Z

    ​Certain seating layouts seem to be so commonplace now that there is a temptation to assume they have been around for decades. But no matter how widespread it now is, the fact is that the reverse herringbone seat pattern adopted in so many of the latest business-class cabins is a ...

  • Qantas A330
    News

    INTERIORS: Australia's big two up the ante on domestic mid-haul

    2015-04-09T14:28:00Z

    Competition in the Australian domestic airline market remains fierce and looks set to stay that way. Driven by a need to retain premium passengers, the country’s two largest carriers are investing more and more resources and marketing effort into routes from the east coast to one key destination – Perth ...

  • Bombardier CSeries flight
    News

    Bombardier risks losing third-largest CSeries customer

    2015-04-08T18:34:44Z

    ​Repeated delays and a new financing problem could drive Bombardier’s third-largest customer for the CSeries to cancel the order within a few months.

  • MRJ
    News

    Mitsubishi to delay MRJ first flight: report

    2015-04-08T11:25:49Z

    Mitsubishi Aircraft will hold a press briefing on 10 April, which could see it announce yet another delay to its MRJ regional jet programme.

  • Emirates A380
    News

    INTERIORS: Middle Eastern carriers show their Gulf in class

    2015-04-07T11:25:00Z

    Twenty years ago the idea that routes from Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow would be some of the busiest trunk operations in the world would have been hard to imagine. Fast forward to 2015, though, and that faintly ridiculous notion has become an impressive reality.

  • A380 Etihad first class
    News

    INTERIORS: Premium passengers face well-appointed future

    2015-04-07T11:05:00Z

    ​As business class cabins become ever more luxurious, airlines find themselves at a fork in the road when it comes to deciding their future strategies for premium passengers.

  • Boeing 777 production line
    News

    INTERIORS: Boeing thinks smarter to boost 777, 737 appeal

    2015-04-07T10:46:31Z

    ​Space may well be the final frontier, but for Boeing – and its airline customers – space is something else entirely. Given the confines of the average narrowbody – a 737 has an interior diameter of 11ft 7in (3.53m), slimmer even than the fans on some large jet engines – ...

  • A350 Qatar
    News

    INTERIORS: A350 XWB provides bigger canvas for airlines

    2015-04-07T09:49:00Z

    ​When Qatar Airways’ chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, took delivery of his company’s first Airbus A350-900 in Toulouse on 22 December 2014, he did so with a broad smile, happy with the latest addition to the fleet.

  • News

    INTERIORS: Aim Altitude goes up in the world

    2015-04-07T00:00:00Z

    ​It has been a busy 12 months for UK firm Aim Aviation since it last appeared at the Aircraft Interiors show.

  • JetBlue Airways
    Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Preparing for a connectivity revolution

    2015-04-02T10:14:37Z

    ​Like the air we breathe, access to wi-fi is increasingly seen as a necessity to get us through the day. Gone are the days when airline passengers were content to be incommunicado during their time on board an aircraft.

  • A330-300
    News

    EASA approves higher-weight A330-300

    2015-04-01T13:49:00Z

    ​Airbus has secured European certification for the higher-weight version of its A330-300, powered by General Electric CF6 engines.

  • CSeries
    News

    Bombardier CEO suggests new CSeries delay possible

    2015-03-27T21:05:30Z

    ​Bombardier’s new chief executive appeared to disclose a new delay for first delivery of the CS100 at a press conference in Montreal on 27 March, but a company spokeswoman says there has been no change.

  • Field Aviation
    Analysis

    ANALYSIS: Field on making ordinary aircraft extraordinary

    2015-03-27T10:28:00Z

    ​For almost 70 years, Field Aviation has been turning mainly Canadian-built types into special mission platforms – making, as its website boasts, “ordinary aircraft extraordinary”. The modifications house, based next to Toronto’s international airport, began transforming surplus wartime transports in the late 1940s. Its latest projects include partnering with Boeing ...