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The PriestmanGoode industrial design agency, together with Qatar Airways and Rockwell Collins, carried the day in the “Cabin Concepts” category. With just a simple flick of the hand, the "QSuite" allows four Business Class suites to be arranged around a table for eating and socialising with family and friends.

For the first time, a Crystal Cabin Award was awarded in the category of “Inflight Entertainment & Connectivity”, known for short as “IFEC”. Better network connectivity and better entertainment attract passengers, and the winner proved how the latter — entertainment — can be made accessible: Bluebox Aviation Systems developed its own IFE platform with on-board entertainment for the visually impaired. The product is already in service with the cooperation partner, Virgin Atlantic.

The partition wall behind Business is bowed in such a way that the Economy passenger sitting behind it still has enough legroom and space for cabin baggage.

Whilst most foil or cable-wrapped heated floor elements are often extremely sensitive, this Austrian innovation is ostensibly indestructible, regardless of outside impact.

Cable harnesses for cabin electronics may soon be a thing of the past, if wiring is directly printed using this process. The new technology was jointly developed in Hamburg’s ZAL TechCenter.

“Valkyrie Bed” for Premium Business Class offers a no-compromise seat and bed, where others just recline the seat. The secret: a roll-up mattress can be drawn across the seat from the wall panel when needed.

The water tap concept, which uses water nebulisation to save up to 90 percent of this resource, convinced the jury.

During the flight booking, the 3D Seat Map application by Spanish company Renacen offers a virtual 360-degree view of the cabin from the passenger perspective.