Adient Aerospace has been shortlisted for the Cabin Design (Business & First Class) Award in The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2023.

Adient Aerospace’s ultimate design goal for the Altitude project was to elevate the passenger experience for narrow-body business class seating. With the increasing capabilities of narrow-body aircraft and their long-haul missions, airlines flying longer distances in smaller planes required an innovative approach to business class cabin luxury. The company recognized the inherent desire for increased comfort and features equivalent to wide-body aircraft, specifically within the First and Business class cabins. However, the reduced width of a narrow-body compared to a wide-body presented obvious spatial constraints that could only be overcome through a collaborative method in designing the cabins.

As the name suggests, Altitude takes narrow-body seating to new heights. Adient Aerospace designed Altitude not only to focus on passenger comfort and ergonomics but also to provide a holistic cabin experience with thoughtful touches for wellness, sleeping, and productivity. The company carefully designed every area so that the experience becomes one of discovering functional design moments. Altitude’s design optimizes passenger space, with functional reading and mood lights, laptop stowage, amenities stowage, a large monitor, shoe stowage, and more.

Each Altitude seat offers a totally private suite with the use of a sliding privacy door that seals off and encloses the seat from all aisle traffic. The seat kinematic offers passengers an unlimited amount of adjustment from the upright TTL (taxi-takeoff-landing) position to the full-flat bed position. The seat configuration distances all passengers away from aisle traffic and has been optimized and designed for flexible pitch options.

Adient Aerospace’s favourite aspect of the Altitude project was working with Acumen Design Associates to bring the luxurious business class passenger experience of a wide-body to narrow-body seating. The company’s focus was on harnessing every available inch within the cabin to provide each passenger with additional comfort for sleeping and productivity, while Altitude’s sleek styling complimented the latest aircraft interior design language.

Adient Aerospace drew on their automotive heritage and expertise in the aerospace industry to create Altitude, and they were pleased to see the successful results in the realized prototype product. Altitude delivers a high-quality product to the modern business class passenger, synonymous with any high-end car interior they may have left behind in the airport parking garage before the flight.

Altitude has set a new benchmark in single aisle premium class seating for density and comfort, continuing Adient Aerospace’s mission to deliver products that improve the experience of a world in motion.

Associated: Acumen Design Associates

Adient Aerospace

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