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Cabin rendering: Vantage XL staggered seat in mostly white and a little blue, without doors.

Update #30: Edelweiss’ oddly custom Vantage XL+, Funny Eurowizzness, and Emirates’ Veganuary changes

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By John Walton Jan 23, 2026 11 min read
Various stone and wood design elements on a table surface.

F/LIST aims for innovation, integration and collaboration — plus expansion up and down the supply chain

By John Walton Jan 21, 2026 13 min read
A light beige high-walled seat with metal accents on a 777X cabin.

Update #29: Emirates’ new business and bar, inside IndiGo’s A321XLR, banning power banks, and United’s mandatory food pre-order

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By John Walton Jan 16, 2026 12 min read
People sit around a table with coffee cups and index cards. We only see their hands. One appears to be speaking with their hands.

Listen now: 40,000 Feet podcast #11: Lessons from lessors, at RedCabin and beyond

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By John Walton Jan 12, 2026 1 min read

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A Boeing 314 "Clipper" in flight.

The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1

By Gareth Edwards Oct 31, 2025 10 min read
A Lufthansa A350 on the stand at Munich with other LH planes behind.

How do you solve a problem like Lufthansa? Airline, brand and passenger insights from its group Capital Markets Day, Part 1

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By John Walton Oct 4, 2025 23 min read
Rendering of the MAEVE Jet, a T-tail rear open-rotor engined aircraft.

MAEVE pivots startup aircraft to 5-abreast, 76–100-seater open-rotor hybrid-electric jet

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By John Walton Aug 1, 2025 13 min read
The front end of a pair of studio class seats in burgundy, black and beige

Collins looks to modularity in seating platform and production lines as new solutions to thorny problems

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By John Walton Jun 15, 2025 9 min read
Screenshot, safety video. A man is belted into a business seat, but set in an old limo.

Update #28: PAL’s A350 and safetynovela, BA’s breakfasts, Viva x Volaris, and premium Euro-leisure

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By John Walton Jan 10, 2026 10 min read
A person in an airport wheelchair, holding a metal walking stick, is wheeled by an assistant.

Disabled passengers, airport wheelchairs and the pernicious myth of “Jetway Jesus”

By John Walton Jan 5, 2026 11 min read
A snowy glacial mountain landscape, with "The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025" overlaid.

Our 2025 Christmas Quiz: the results and the answers

By John Walton Jan 2, 2026 2 min read
Interior, airport lounge, windowless area with temporary walls and industrial ceiling, muddy green and burgundy colouring.

Update #27: Lufthansa 787 Allegris update, Finnair to Melbourne, JAL’s A350 IROPS, temporary lounges and air travel in 1977

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By John Walton Dec 19, 2025 10 min read
A snowy glacial mountain landscape, with "The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025" overlaid.

Enter now: The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025

By John Walton Dec 18, 2025 3 min read
A RAVE IFE system, seat 32B, offering English, Arabic and Russian on the splash screen.

Update #26: Safran sells SPI/RAVE, Lufthansa Group “rebrands”, ANA’s 787 The Room FX, American’s A321XLR, and three interesting new lounges

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By John Walton Dec 12, 2025 10 min read
A shot straight down a wet runway with clouds overhead at Dublin Airport.

RedCabin Business Readout: the state of the industry: seat suppliers and cabin interiors

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By John Walton Dec 10, 2025 10 min read
Interior, TAP A321LR, economy cabin. Light grey seats, IFE screens, green seat covers

Update #25: TAP’s “premium economy”, Eurowings’ Berlin boost, A320 avionics and IndiGo’s meltdown, airport wheelchair “scams”, and airline design disasters

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By John Walton Dec 8, 2025 10 min read
large four engined seaplane just above the water

Bringing her home: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 5

By Gareth Edwards Dec 5, 2025 15 min read
A press image with galley inserts, trolleys and a reclining premium seat

40,000 Feet Podcast #10: why and how Jamco plans to integrate Iacobucci

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By John Walton Dec 4, 2025 1 min read
Closeup on an inward facing herringbone (Iberia/Thompson Solo) in beige on an A321neo

Update #24: New transatlantic narrowbodies, Air Canada’s big fleet rejig, more Lufthansa news, and the airline civility debate…

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By John Walton Nov 29, 2025 9 min read
People gathered around tables in a hangar with a large Delta airplane above them.

Free to listen: 40,000 Feet podcast #9: The pre-RedCabin Special

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By John Walton Nov 28, 2025 1 min read
A two-storey light industrial building with a red entry portico.

Business Readout: Safran risks French union disquiet about offshoring at its peril — especially at troubled Issoudun site

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By John Walton Nov 24, 2025 6 min read
Image: a cream-beige-and-brown staggered seat without doors, with the usual Emirates glossy burled wood aesthetic.

Safran plans to outsource Emirates seat production from France, US to Dubai as part of UAE manufacturing cluster push

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By John Walton Nov 24, 2025 13 min read
Interior, business class seat. Curtains descend from the bins on the right-hand side of the aircraft.

Update #23: Dubai orders, Ethiopian's Diamond, China Southern interiors, Qantas' new lounges, and LEVEL curtain questions…

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By John Walton Nov 22, 2025 9 min read

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