Brussels Airlines celebrates a decade of special liveries with the latest design, “The Atomium,” honoring Belgium’s creativity and pride. Architect Thomas Faes won a competition to realize the concept, which involved significant collaboration and technical refinement. The aircraft’s interior thematically complements the exterior, enriching the passenger experience with historical insights.
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Now, Condor’s A330neo nautically business class might not be recent news, but social is finally buzzing around the airline’s decision to up-guage its front row of business class to a ‘Business Plus’ proposition. Dubbed ‘Prime Seats’, Condor’s front row of four seats are in effect ‘mini suites’ with a few hidden surprises that the airline…
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United Airlines, now profitable once again has firmly set its stall as a leading Passenger Experience airline, vying for market dominance through modern, comfortable cabins that give passengers what they want: more space, more entertainment and more choice. This is something we applaud and have been promoting as the right approach to winning over customer…
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As the phrase goes, “good things come in small packages.” In 2018, the airline industry carried 4.4billion passengers. It has become an integral part of human life, but it’s also an industry of behemoth players. In fact, in 2018, the top 10 airline groups transported over one third of the entire annual traffic, leaving the…
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The process might have taken 7 months but after 1,415 submitted ideas were whittled down to one, a single A320 took 14 days out of its schedule to be painted up as the winning livery of the ‘Belgian Icon’ contest. Named ‘Aerosmurf’, this unique design by Italian Marta Mascellani, was chosen by the public from…
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Meet the world’s first Flying Honu. As part of ANA’s competition to design a special one off livery for their new A380, the winner has been selected to celebrate the Tokyo-Honolulu route that the aircraft will fly. The design will see the largest possible animal painted on a plane, far larger than the Alaska Airlines…
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TheDesignAir Give Away! We have a First Class Cathay Pacific Amenity kit to give away, featuring our favourite skincare brand Aesop. We will ship this kit to one lucky reader who shares this story on Facebook through our Facebook page. If you haven’t already, subscribe to our Facebook page and get sharing all of our stories! We…
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JetBlue have announced the new price point for flying with the only private ‘suite’ between West-East Coast flights; Los Angeles and New York and San Francisco and New York. Starting at a mind bending $499 one way they have managed to surpass our expectations yet again with the costs being yet another reason to fly…
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Alaska Airlines this week revealed it’s latest unique livery for it’s fleet, designed by 17 year old Aaron Nee. The design was part of a competition run by the airline to create a livery that ‘honored the culture of the Aloha State’. Nee’s design was selected from among more than 2,700 submissions by students across the…
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Congratulations to Jorg Schulz-Gerchow, Harry Hook and Philip Bircham, our latest TheDesignAir winners, who have each won themselves some fantastic, and exclusive Fiji Airways goodies, they are winging their way to you! For those who entered and sadly didn’t win the goodies, fear not, as our lovely friends at Fiji Airways may have another special…
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Our new friends at Fiji Airways have provided our regular readers of TheDesignAir the opportunity to grab some of their very first Fiji Airways branded goodies. After launching their new look and name, as featured here, Fiji Airways have taken the aviation world by surprise with a great looking new product and livery, many critics…
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Congratulations to Gail Farmer from Birmingham who successfully won the competition for a pair of champagne experience lounge passes to the No.1 Traveller Lounges. She told thedesignair.net she was going to be using them at the brand new Birmingham lounge. Everyone is a winner! The No.1 Traveller lounges are actually running a great promotion at…
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Win Two exclusive lounge passes to start your trip with a bang! Here at Thedesignair we are very pleased to announce our very first of many upcoming competitions. We have partnered up with the fantastic No.1 Traveller group to provide a pair of ‘champagne experience’ lounge passes to use in any of the No.1 Traveller lounges. We…
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