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024 COVER STORY:
ACCESSIBILITY
Airlines, airports and the aircraft interiors
industry must all put serious effort into providing
better assistance for passengers with disabilities.
If they don’t make changes, legislators may be
forced to compel them to do so…
034 IN FOCUS: VIRGIN ATLANTIC’S
A350-1000
Take a deep dive into Red Velvet, the launch A350
for Virgin Atlantic, which takes the airline's cabin
designs in a new direction
044 FLAMMABILITY TESTING
Significant reform of fire testing processes could
be on the horizon, but could this reform have an
adverse effect on fire safety in the cabin?
054 INTERVIEW: DANIEL KERZNER
Virgin Atlantic’s VP of customer experience
discusses everything from changing passenger
tastes and demographics, to staying ahead of the
technology curve, to innovation safaris
062 THE FLYING-V CONCEPT
TU Delft, Airbus and KLM have collaborated to
create the Flying-V concept for a highly efficient
aircraft with a rather different passenger
experience. Is a V the shape of things to come?
Up front
A selection of the latest technologies, trends,
developments and discoveries entering the
passenger experience airspace
010 Introducing Starlux Airlines, an exciting
Taiwanese startup airline
012 Qantas is making major changes to its
A380s as part of their mid-life makeovers
015 Our roundup of the latest aviation industry
statistics, encompassing everything from
industry revenues to passenger tastes
016 JetBlue hopes to keep winning the hearts of
New Yorkers with its new A321 schemes
018 Take a closer look at ANA’s widebody first
class cabin, developed with a star architect
020 DESIGN BRIEF: An extraordinary idea
for an amazing inflight experience that could
make IFE redundant
022 DESIGN BRIEF: A design studio
considers how to really make inflight service
more sustainable
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