TRIP REPORT: What you might have missed from Aircraft Interiors Expo – More Innovations in Hamburg

What you might have missed from Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026
TRIP REPORT: More Innovations in Hamburg

In this week of passenger experience fun:

• Back to Hamburg Again. And yes, keeping it simple
• To Heathrow Airport with FlixBus and Terminal 5
• British Airways Galleries South, Terminal 5
• BA964 London Heathrow to Hamburg (Club Europe – New Configuration)
• The joy of the European Entry/Exit System and into Hamburg
• The Ibis Budget St Pauli (Refurbished)
• A walk through the Hamburg Dom Fair (Spring Fair)
• What you might have missed from Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026
• Off the Camera Roll – Exploring Hamburg during the quiet moments
• Escape from the Messe and Return to Hamburg Airport
• Hamburg Airport Lounge and European Entry/Exit System queues
• BA969 Hamburg to London Heathrow (Club Europe – Old Configuration)
• A Luggage Mess and a Messier Coach Ride Home
• Continued Innovation

Time for a wrap-up of what we covered at Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026. As usual, we’ll make this nice and simple, and as usual, organised in alphabetical order.

This will cover some stuff I haven’t written articles for, or items I’ve done deep dives on. And some stuff to come.

Acro Aircraft Seating

Acro launched an eVOTL seat.

Airbus

• Airbus moves the A220 programme forward with Airspace confirmed for three airlines. – And we’ve seen the fruit of those labours. See the AirAsia announcement
• Airbus showcases its next-generation First Class Experience concept for A350-1000 – and with the space being more premium than ever, the nose of the aircraft is going to get expensive, fast.

Collins Aerospace

• Air Canada selects Collins Aerospace Seating for its upcoming Airbus A321XL.R – and is now flying.

• Collins Aerospace secures three launch customers for the Helix Main Cabin Seat – Names to be confirmed.
• The Collins Aerospace SkyNook – turning unused space into an important offering – And I got to play with it.

Geven

• Introducing Eva from Geven Seating, to fly first with Wizz Air
• flyadeal signs with Gevan and Jiratchi Seating for their A330neo seating

Hughes

• Delta Air Lines selects Airbus for A350-1000 in-flight connectivity solution with Hughes.
• Air India taps Hughes for next-generation In-Flight Connectivity

Expliseat

• Expliseat unveils its first Business Class Seat – Introducing the TiSeat S – Based on the Ti Family, Expliseat goes business class.

Mirus Aircraft Seating

• A deeper dive into the Mirus Aircraft Seating Kestral – the new easyJet seat – Surprisingly impressive

MOMENT

• Garuda Indonesia selects MOMENT for its Wireless IFE solution

Pansonic Avionics

• Panasonic Avionics unveils eXNeo – For those in the retrofit market, this is big and an easy way to upgrade aircraft, quickly.
• Air Canada commences flying with Panasonic Astrova.
• The Panasonic exNEO – Upgrading an airline’s in-flight experience

RAVE Aerospace

RAVE showed off their latest screens, powered by RAVEOS 2 and its Harmony interface.

Recaro Aircraft Seating

• Diving into the future of sustainability with Recaro and the R Sphere sustainability demonstrator
• Japan Airlines shows off the Recaro R2 Seat for its Boeing 737-8 aircraft

SpaceX

• Virgin Atlantic to accelerate its Starlink rollout, with Airbus A350 family to lead.

Safran/RAVE Aerospace

• Introducing the RAVE Aerospace and Safran’s “Origin” Concept

Safran

• Unifying data across the cabin – Looking at Safran’s Poleen Cabin Management System
• Building on Unity – the new seat for Riyadh Air

Thinkom

• ThinKom Unveils Space-optimised ThinAir Nexus Aircraft Antenna

Thompson Aero Seating

• LATAM to launch its Airbus A321XLR with Thompson VantageSOLO
• Thompson goes big with its VantageXL+

Thales

• Thales launches FlytEdge Aura – Bringing Tandem OLED to the Sky

Viasat

• Viasat enters Technical Evaluation Process with Boeing to Qualify Viasat AERA
• Vueling boosts Passenger satisfaction with help from Viasat
• Jetstar selects Viasat AMARA for in-flight connectivity

ZipAir

• ZIPAIR Completes Fleetwide Deployment of MacBook Pro Inflight Server Platform

Crystal Cabin Awards

• Crystal Cabin Awards – The 2026 winners announced

Next:

More photos as I squeeze my library dry. Another round of Off the Camera Roll.

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