• In parallel with the development of the "zero-emission" aircraft, Airbus is working on a lighter weight in its aircraft cabins.
  • The reflection, carried out with a dozen airlines, involves the use of new materials but also an amazing new concept of meal trays.

Go through a "Gate box", a giant dispenser of meal trays, before boarding the plane and pick, from a wide choice, enough to eat in a washable box that keeps the snack cool. This futuristic option, valid on short flights, is one of those imagined by Airbus and a dozen airlines around the world to make air travel more "sustainable" by 2035. It would avoid taking unnecessary victuals on board.

On long-haul flights, the idea is to pre-order meals from your mobile phone, always before boarding. Enough to lighten the trolleys of hostesses and stewards who will come to serve them and to do without a lot of chatter. This new catering "concept" could help, according to Ingo Wuggetzen, the vice president of marketing for the aircraft manufacturer's cabins, "food waste and weight up to 15%".


But the "Cabin vision 2035+" project does not just revolutionize catering. At a time when aeronautics must "green" its image, and while waiting for the Airbus hydrogen plane still announced for 2035, he completely rethinks the cabin, making it both more ventilated, more natural, by the use of new materials "recyclable, repairable and reusable". The aircraft manufacturer believes that "bionic polymers" can "contribute to reducing the weight of the cabin by 40%, and therefore to improve the environmental impact of the aircraft, in flight or in its manufacturing phase. The ambition is to gradually introduce these new materials into cabins, before fully deploying them in the next generation of aircraft.

These cabin interiors of the future, rather zen, will be officially presented, and life-size, from June 6 to 8 at a specialized trade fair in Hamburg, Germany.

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