The coming cabin revolution

With new aeroplanes come newly engineered designs for passengers

With new and re-engined airliners rolling out from factory doors, making their first flights, or being delivered to their launch customers practically every month, 2018 feels like a time of plenty for commercial aviation.

From A for Airbus to E for Embraer (the commercial aviation industry is weighted heavily in the first fifth of the alphabet) and MAX and neo versions in the middle, the airframe engineering heavy lifting for this generation of new aircraft is largely done, if you look at it from outside the aircraft.