Inside the cabin

Airbus cabins are designed to offer passengers and airlines the highest levels of comfort, services and efficiency. Passenger comfort has always been a major design consideration at Airbus in order to ensure the best possible passenger experience across all its aircraft families.

Not only are Airbus cabins innovative and attractive, they are continuously being improved to offer travellers the quietest, most comfortable and enjoyable journeys.

Airbus created a cabin centre at its Toulouse, France headquarters with full-scale interior mock-ups of the company’s jetliners, along with displays of buyer-furnished equipment.  In addition, Airbus has developed configuration tools that help customers define their cabin layouts and equipment requirements.

Constant innovation is a feature of Airbus’ cabin interior development.  Mood lighting capable of simulating day or night is offered to ease the stress of jet lag for long-haul passengers and also helps provide a relaxing ambience.   Highly advanced air filters and air conditioning maintain air quality at the highest level by trapping particles and organic matter, while the optimization of interior contours create additional space overhead and ensures ample shoulder and elbow for passengers at their seats.

Airbus cabin interior excellence even extends to the galleys, where the company’s new SPICE (Space Innovative Catering Equipment) concept is the result of extensive investigation into the needs and requirements of the airline community.   To save weight, the SPICE concept takes a major step forward by putting today's standard meal-trays into lightweight boxes, instead of trolleys, with foldable service carts used to transport the boxes during passenger service.

Other breakthroughs with SPICE include improved workspace for the crew; the use of plug-and-play galley equipment, which enables airlines to implement route-specific menus or adapt on-board catering to changing passenger tastes; a higher volume of galley area chilled, with lower chilled temperatures; and equipment to segregate waste for implementing recycling initiatives.  Benefits of the SPICE concept are so significant that Airbus believes the concept has the potential to become the first new industry-wide standard for galleys in over 40 years.

As cabin furnishings, seats and other elements are selected and purchased by the customers, Airbus works hand-in-hand with them to determine the best possible match with market requirements and in-flight service – providing a number of customisation options from which the ideal and most effective layout can be chosen.