The Crystal Cabin Awards offer up amazing innovations for air travellers every year. But will any of these ideas actually take off?
Part of the Aircraft Interiors Expo held in Hamburg each year, the Crystal Cabin Awards are a glimpse into the future, a look at what the inflight experience might look like in years to come. It’s a survey of new cabin interiors, seats, lighting, entertainment systems and health and safety innovations.Entries for the awards come from aircraft manufacturers, airlines, seat makers, electronics specialists, technical colleges and universities.
Images of the Wellbeing Zone show a corridor with self-serve snacks available from a glass-fronted cabinet, a video screen showing “guided wellbeing content” and handles on the sides of walls to facilitate stretching.
Also short-listed for the awards, the interiors of Japan Airlines’ new Airbus A350-1000s, the flagships of its long-haul fleet, which have been designed by a collaboration between leading UK design consultancy Tangerine and seat makers Safran Seats and Recaro Aircraft Seating.
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