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- So welcome to my stand at the Aircraft Interiors show.
I think this is the best, coolest table you can ever get.
An engine turning table with lights coming out of the side.
Think about this as a window.
You can see the engine turning all the time,
sitting at home, right?
Isn't that cool?
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So imagine you have an aeroplane.
You need aircraft interior.
You need connectivity, maintenance,
and all the supply stuff.
And this is why we are here,
to check out some of the cool stuff on the show.
Follow me.
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- Welcome to Aircraft Interiors Middle East.
Wanted to introduce to you the newest seat innovation
from HAECO Cabin Solutions.
Sam, maybe you could come over and take a seat,
and we'll walk you through some of the seat features.
So this is an eight kilogramme seat for narrow-body aircraft.
What's unique about this seat is its slim-line design.
What it does is it space back to the passenger.
So you're sitting in a seat with 29 inches of pitch,
and you have comfortable leg room and knee room.
You can extend your legs out.
So, Sam, one of the other things,
this seat has a proper table.
So this is attached to the spreaders.
It's not just attached to the seat back.
So you don't get, when this person is moving in the seat,
you still have a stable table.
I mean, I'm almost 6'2", 6 feet, two inches,
and even I can stretch my legs out,
and I'm in a comfortable seating position.
The other interesting thing
about this seat is you have a full bottom cushion.
- Oh.
- So this is not a slim-line cushion.
One of the things that we've done is we've carried
over our full cushion, just like you would have
on a seat you would be flying 8, 10, 12 hours.
So what we've tried to do is
to make a really smart compromise
between weight, comfort, and then durability.
The seat has been designed really with,
coming out of our MRO heritage,
recognising what makes a durable seat as well.
- If down the line, we're talking about sustainability
and less emission, then we need a lighter weight
business class seat as well.
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So I just met Alejandro,
who's actually an aircraft seats designer.
He actually study a TU Delft in Netherlands,
and he's actually got some cool concept seats.
And hopefully one of these seats can made it
to the airlines one day.
We can sit, and you got some double-decker seats, right?
Can you show us?
- Yeah, so basically I decided to design
this double-decker seat in order to improve
the passenger experience in the economy class.
So this has been done after a lot of research
at the TU Delft, and we have developed this seat
where we can have passengers sitting
at two different levels,
and therefore we can give them more comfort.
And also we can give them different passenger experience
and possibilities.
For example, you would be able to sleep on the top row
in a full flat bed that closes with curtains.
And actually that would give you a private space
within the economy class.
You don't have to pay
for business now - Oh.
to fly comfortably and to sleep
in economy class. - So its to
use the vertical space that is
between a ceiling currently
and the seats, so you can have a space
that top people can sleep up there,
and then three people can sleep
underneath it at a bottom.
- Exactly.
You would get rid of the overhead cabin storage
and by taking advantage of that space,
you can put another seat that is a little bit higher.
The luggage storage goes under the seat now.
- Under the seat.
Yeah, and by taking advantage - Ah.
of that we can create much more space,
much more recliner possibility.
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- This is why I love the Aircraft Interior shows,
that everything you see inside the aeroplane cabin,
you probably can found it here.
There's flight attendant uniforms here actually.
So I guess your company designed these uniforms.
- Exactly.
Yeah. Creation & Image create and produce all the uniforms.
- [Sam] Right.
- [Man] So, and we do many, many companies
in the Middle East Area.
- Let me take some guess
on your uniform. - Yes, yeah, yeah, sure.
- I know this one,
because this one's kind of give you a hint.
There's a falcon, a golden falcon.
So that's Gulf Air.
Isn't it?
- Yeah, from Bahrain yeah.
We do Air Mauritius. - This was a,
Oh, I didn't know.
This is Air Mauritius, right? - Yes, yes, exactly.
- I've flown with Air Mauritius.
There's a give away on the scarf here, Air Mauritius.
- And we do also all the uniforms for Kuwait.
- Kuwait Airways.
- Yeah, Kuwait Airways, yes.
- So this is the current uniform
of Kuwait Airways. - Exactly, yeah.
- And we have developed a special fabric,
especially for them.
- It says fabric from France.
French fabric, yeah.
- [Man] Exactly, yeah.
- [Sam] Very high-class.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Sam] Wow.
- [Man] All our stylists are in France, in Paris,
we are based.
- In French, they very beautiful fashion ladies, right?
- We try. - I need to try.
I need to try on your fashion, (man laughing)
like a man one.
- You have one, you know, for the captain.
- Oh, the captain.
That's for me.
I need to dress up with this one, here.
There you go.
- You're missing that,
you know, here. - The captain's hat, right?
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- So now you are a captain.
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- So I'm at one of the most interesting stand
in the whole Aircraft Interior.
And this stand has the first Emirates A380 memorabilia.
You can see A6-EDA.
This is coming out from the gear door, right?
And nowadays this is the trend.
Every collector of aircraft is collecting aviation tags.
These tags coming out of retired A380 skin, right?
And what can be better than meeting
the biggest A380 Emirates fans
which is Skywardsfreak Lays here.
So Lays what did you buy today here?
- I bought seven different destinations
including a very special one, which is where he was born.
It's the XFW.
- Oh, it's Hamburg.
- Yeah, it's the factory. - Finkenwerder.
- The man behind my Dubai Air show,
and also the Aircraft Interior MRO stand is Fawad.
Fawad is absolute a genius.
He recycle aeroplanes part and turned them into furniture.
And just like here, he has created quite a few
wonderful items, a window, and he's done engine cowling,
tables, chair, seats, you name it.
- This is definitely a great opportunity
for myself, WingsCraft, and Falcon Aircraft Recycling
to display most of our items
which we taken from the first Emirates A380,
alpha six echo delta alpha.
- [Sam] Which destination - Yep.
of the steam tag is the most popular?
- [Fawad] Of course DXB.
- [Sam] DXB is the most popular one.
- [Fawad] Yes.
- I need to get hold of one.
- Yes, exactly.
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- Today at the Aircraft Interior Middle East
I met with Andre from Woods Air.
He's actually a internet connectivity expert
onto the aeroplane.
So my question here is how many types
of internet connectivity currently we have?
How can we connect internet onto the aeroplane?
- If we talk about the realtime connectivity,
I would assume there are three groups
that we could consider.
This is a satellite.
It's a very heavy, costy environment of connectivity.
Let's call it so.
Then we have Aircraft-to-Ground.
This is more developing unit,
that I think there is a future in this.
And then we talk about this light solution of connectivity.
We actually, at the company,
we are trialling this solution now.
It allows our customers to have a free texting solution,
based on the Bluetooth technology.
So being in flight, they could text it freely.
It's around 20 text messages per one second.
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- Lots of interesting company participating
in the Aircraft Interior Middle East.
- I'm sure you have already flown
these first-class seats Emirates on their 777.
And this is actually all genuine leather
on the Collins first class and business class suites.
- [Sam] So your company produced this leather
on the aeroplane seats.
- Exactly.
We do hides, we do panels for perforation,
with different kind of version
with anti-stain and resistance.
And this is what we do for different level of leather
from first class, top level to very lightweight,
very durable product on some low-cost carriers
in synthetic to save some weights.
- Some airlines, they have fabric seats.
I also see a lot of airline using leather seats.
So what's the trend going?
Is more leather seats in favour or the fabric seats?
- It's a good question, actually, Sam.
It really depends on the area.
For example, if you go in States in North America,
you can see already a lot of market share
in the synthetic leather.
For example, you take United or other ones, Delta,
they're already flying a lot with synthetic leather.
In this area, Middle East, the clear trends is fabrics,
especially on economy, but you have some big carriers
like Saudi or Emirates.
Saudi's flying exclusively with genuine leather.
And we are trying to push this trend that we see
in Europe, Western Europe.
We really see a big trend
for the short and medium range aircraft to move
to synthetic leather for cost reasons,
and weight reasons again.
- This is synthetic letter.
- Yes, actually.
And as you can feel, you do not really feel the difference
with genuine leather.
So for some economy seats, for example,
when the idea is to save cleaning time and also weight,
because actually this synthetic leather is
60, 65% less weight than a genuine leather,
and maybe 25% less weight than fabrics.
Then you can get for A320 maybe 90 kilogrammes
to 150 kilogrammes per shipset of savings
just by moving to synthetic leather.
And it can be laminated,
and usually the passenger don't feel
the difference on board.
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- So we saw lots of beautiful leather seats,
and now we came to a company, provide a good solution
how to clean this leather.
Because imagine the letter gets dirty,
your mother's not going to be happy, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
Correct, correct, correct.
- So you got something to - So I will invite you-
show me here.
- You can write something on the leather,
on the artificial leather.
I invite you to do this. - Okay.
- I'll write something, and-
- Yeah, you can write.
- I'll draw a heart here.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- You can do also on this one.
- Okay.
- And you can do it on pen.
- Uh-huh.
Yeah, normally I don't do this on the aeroplane.
That's graffiti, right?
Yeah, I just, yeah.
Bit naughty today.
- We can clean this with this.
I can show you.
Then I need to wipe.
- [Sam] Really?
Wow.
- They're specially made wipes for it.
And then it's gone.
- [Sam] It's gone, completely gone.
- [Man] Yeah.
- Wow.
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- How do you see the future of IFE evolving
from this point right now?
You know, we going to achieve streaming, like you can do,
in the hotel room or at home streaming, YouTube streaming,
Netflix and stuff like that.
There will be no more screen.
People will use their own device.
- From my perspective, you've nailed it, right.
Exactly what the industry needs is the capability
to really create an ecosystem on board.
To give airlines the opportunity to brand effectively
and engage with their passengers in every aspect
of mobile devices, to seat-back entertainment,
to streaming WiFi, and also being able to engage
with them in a digital way.
So in the past,
you've had menus that are handed to you, right?
That's all going to be digital in the future.
In the past, you've had to navigate to your map
to find out how long you have until your destination.
In the future smart surfaces
and those capabilities are going to be available
for you to just wave your hand
over an area and see your time to destination,
or customise that from an airline perspective.
And also the Bluetooth pairing of headphones,
I believe is going to be one of the latest trends
that airlines are really going to adopt as fast as possible.
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- So earlier I was telling you
that annoying IFE box restricting your leg room, right?
But this is one of the IFE box,
but this is not actually restricting a leg room.
I found out here, right?
- Yeah. So, Sam, this goes, instead of under the seat,
in the overhead bin, and you can stream content
via WiFi up to 50 passengers per unit on the plane.
- So it goes up like this in the overhead bins.
- Exactly.
- It doesn't come down to the leg room.
- Absolutely not.
Saves a lot of space, saves a lot of weight,
and really great for streaming to passengers.
- Yeah. I mean, it's great.
People keep improving,
developing for the comfort of passengers.
And this is why we come to trade shows to see it first hand
and report it back to you.
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You know, I feel like I'm in a showroom room
and selecting the interior, shopping for my next airline.
I really like the wood one, which I also seen
in some of the airlines.
They have this kind of finishing on the bulkhead
or around the side panel.
I think this sample very interesting.
It's like some sort of tile,
look like a laminite.
I thought aeroplanes only have carpets inside interior.
- Oh no, no.
There there's many different types of flooring.
Schneller specialise in NTF, which is non-textile flooring.
So we have a big range of products there for galleys, labs.
So yeah, there there are many different types of flooring,
which are hard flooring rather than carpet,
for safety purposes, yeah?
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- There's lots of new technologies to explore
on the connectivity front,
because connectivity is vital now.
Now we can't live without WiFi
probably more than one hour, right?
So Patrick here, he's got actually quite
a new invention called LiFi.
I'll let you explain how LiFi works
and how much faster that will be.
- With the high modulation frequency,
you can transfer high digital volume of data
through optical fibre and through the infrared light.
10 times, at least 10 times
above the wireless classic WiFi connection.
- [Sam] Whoa, 10 times higher, faster.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Sam] Is this very expensive technology?
- It's comparable to wireless, current technology with WiFi,
and the volume of data is hundred times bigger.
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- You know, there's so much component
and parts inside the interior aeroplane.
Have you thought about where the carpets come from?
Where all the curtain divider come from?
In here, at the Aircraft Interior Middle East exhibition,
I found out some of the providers here.
So nice to meet you.
Now I have a question.
The aeroplane carpets or aeroplane textile stuff,
are they very different to at home or in a hotel?
- Absolutely, because you have different requirements
like the burning behaviour, like antistatic behaviour,
and, of course, in regards of durability.
So the home carpet is not as durable,
definitely not as durable, as the aircraft carpets,
as you can imagine it.
Hundreds of people walking on the carpet every day,
you need to have a current kind of stability and durability.
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- Well, that's a wrap for the two-day show.
I hope you guys enjoy seeing
some of these latest industry development trend,
and see you next year again.