The Future of Air Travel: Cabin Configuration Changes on Short Flights
The invention of the airplane has shrunk boundaries: the trip that once took days, weeks, or months, now takes only hours to complete making air travel the choice of many.
However, the events that developed in the last few years have caused air travel costs to increase, for both passengers and airlines, and percentages of traveling customers to decrease.
Realizing the need for a more efficient and inexpensive way to travel, Howard Guy, one of Design Q directors, and his team came up with a new interior design for flights lasting less than 90 minutes.
Based in the United Kingdom, Design Q is a team of "design consultants for aircraft interiors for both commercial cabin and seating design (such as Virgin Atlantic & Cathay Pacific) as well as VIPs private jets (Bombardier, Learjet and Global ABJ's)."
Guy explains: "The MAXCABIN idea came from our extensive knowledge of the commercial aircraft interiors coupled with working on a very unusual project with Kingsland Primary school in Stoke on Trent..."
While designing and implementing the interior of an aircraft to be transformed into a classroom, Guy realized that a similar design could benefit the airline industry as much as it benefited the school.
What does the "MAXICABIN" look like?
Imagine the empty interior of a commercial aircraft. Now add pull down seats which will face inward, along the sides of the cabin; in the middle of the compartment add two rows of similar seats with the back to each other and facing the seats placed along the walls.
These will be no frill seats. They will pull down when in use and be stored upright when empty. Basically, they will work like the seats flight attendants use on shorter flights.
The objective of this design is to maximize space and decrease operating costs for the airline industry as well as reducing travel cost for its passengers.
After further development of the design, the prototype for this new interior was presented this month, September 2009, "to gauge reaction from passengers, critics and airlines."
If the first reaction is to disregard the idea, consider the following points Guy presented during the press release:
However, the events that developed in the last few years have caused air travel costs to increase, for both passengers and airlines, and percentages of traveling customers to decrease.
Realizing the need for a more efficient and inexpensive way to travel, Howard Guy, one of Design Q directors, and his team came up with a new interior design for flights lasting less than 90 minutes.
Based in the United Kingdom, Design Q is a team of "design consultants for aircraft interiors for both commercial cabin and seating design (such as Virgin Atlantic & Cathay Pacific) as well as VIPs private jets (Bombardier, Learjet and Global ABJ's)."
Guy explains: "The MAXCABIN idea came from our extensive knowledge of the commercial aircraft interiors coupled with working on a very unusual project with Kingsland Primary school in Stoke on Trent..."
While designing and implementing the interior of an aircraft to be transformed into a classroom, Guy realized that a similar design could benefit the airline industry as much as it benefited the school.
What does the "MAXICABIN" look like?
Imagine the empty interior of a commercial aircraft. Now add pull down seats which will face inward, along the sides of the cabin; in the middle of the compartment add two rows of similar seats with the back to each other and facing the seats placed along the walls.
These will be no frill seats. They will pull down when in use and be stored upright when empty. Basically, they will work like the seats flight attendants use on shorter flights.
The objective of this design is to maximize space and decrease operating costs for the airline industry as well as reducing travel cost for its passengers.
After further development of the design, the prototype for this new interior was presented this month, September 2009, "to gauge reaction from passengers, critics and airlines."
If the first reaction is to disregard the idea, consider the following points Guy presented during the press release:
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