Squeezing out a net profit is tough in the airline business. And while straining to do so, plane manufacturers have come up with some interesting ideas. The latest: Turn cabins – the part of the plane ...

A new Airbus patent has cropped up showing a new type of modular aircraft with cabins that are detachable and that essentially slot into the plane via a docking module of some sort. Each of these ...

Every few months, a crazy patent or research paper pops up that promises to revolutionise air travel. A few years ago, an astrophysicist devised a dehumanising algorithm that can decrease airplane ...

Airbus has been coming up with a lot of ideas lately to make air travel more efficient. First there was the bicycle-like seat that has passengers perched on their chairs. And then there was the ...

Airbus has revealed a radical design for future airplane cabins – swappable interiors that can be customized to fit the needs of each flight. Called Transpose, the concept separates an airplane's ...

Airbus has yet to find a customer for its lower-deck cabin module, but promoters have clearer ideas on how to market and certify it. The “lower-deck passenger experience module,” designed as extra ...

looking at this thing, i don't see quicker turnaround unless the module can have been in the terminal for a time before the arrival of the aircraft. that would mean a terminal could only be used for ...

Squeezing out a net profit is tough in the airline business. And while straining to do so, plane manufacturers have come up with some interesting ideas. The latest: Turn cabins – the part of the plane ...