If you find flying unpleasant these days, you are in the majority. But as you will see below, there is a hive of activity going on thinking about what one can do with the confined space that is an airplane cabin.
This ‘Imagine Innovations Flying Tomorrow’ video was put together by the Airbus Cabin Innovation and Design team following a collaborative study undertaken by the BDLI Network Cabin | Cargo.
Airbus seems to be finding new ways to expand the role of the A380 without working on the long rumored -900 model. At Innovation Days last week the OEM showed the following slides. [Read more...]
Air Baltic has become launch customer for Satisfly. The system allows you to register a profile and then ensure you are seated next to somebody that is highly likely to be interesting to you. Its a neat idea and should make flying more fun again.
If one were to believe airline industry critics, airlines are a major cause of global warming. Despite the industry’s claim that it accounts for less than 2% of gases that can be blamed for pollution. Why let data spoil a good story? [Read more...]
A lot has been said about Air Asia’s CEO. Here he is speaking at Airbus when he took delivery of the airline’s 100th A320. He is obviously a very compelling man. It is clear that he loves what he does, and it is clear why his company is so successful. This is an amazing story that had the aviation media audience enthralled. The top Airbus people were sitting right front of our camera and you can hear them enjoying the jokes.
Mr Fernandes and the Airbus management are clearly very close and the friendship seems real and sincere.
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As part of the Innovation Days 2012 event, Airbus EVP Strategy & Future Programmes offered a view on how the company is thinking about emerging technologies. Airbus is investing in numerous new technologies to improve commercial aviation. The range of the company’s interests is really wide and spreads from airport to air traffic management. Improvements in operations seems to offer a significant amount of fuel and pollution by improving efficiencies.
When you run a global business like Airbus you have customers across the globe that need support for the highly complex machines they utilize. This support has to cover all the airplanes in use – whether still for sale or out of production. So how does Airbus handle this sort of support? Airbus’ Didier Lux EVP Customer Services explains.
Didier Evrard EVP and Head of A350 program gave the Airbus Innovation Days program update. He explains the complexities of new programs and also shared some of the successes where planning has started to show the results hoped for. Given the amount of issues that need to be orchestrated to ensure a coming together of parts and systems, it would seem the A350 program is certainly running much better than the A380. Clearly Airbus has learned important lessons from not only their own programs, but also that of competitors. That said, Airbus was not ready to define specifically their level of confidence on EIS. As Mr Evrard explained some concerns still exist with the supply chain – and in this Airbus is certainly not unique. Supply chain concerns are an industry concern.
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Airbus’ Head of Aircraft Interiors Marketing, Zuzana Hrnkova shared some of the thinking and ideas around the A350 cabin. You may be surprised to learn that Airbus had mood lighting back in the early 2000 era. The A350 cabin appears to be headed for rave reviews from passengers. We went through the mockup (no pictures allowed) and can confirm it looks awesome.
At Airbus Innovation Days Air Asia were a surprise visit. They came to pick up their newest airplane. This was a warm exchange between Airbus and Air Asia. There was genuine warmth and a clearly deep relationship.
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