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It's time to swap the headrest for some bedrest. Say hello to the world's first sleep pods in the sky, the Skynest™. Air New Zealand’s Skynest™ is a lie flat rest experience for Economy class passengers. A standalone monument on the main deck of the aircraft it is comprised of 6 lie flat bunks for passengers to rest, stretch out and boost their physical and mental wellbeing during their journey.

Thales’ Onboard Data Center (ODC) features 6 patented technologies. Its hyperconverged architecture revolves around individual blades that support multiple functions. These blades share storage and compute capabilities, resulting in an aggregated storage space 10 times higher than the average IFE server. Each blade can be replaced or upgraded depending on the airlines’ needs. Software is smartly distributed and redounded across blades to optimize onboard resources in real-time. In the event of one or two blades shutting down, service remains up and running without any impact on the passenger experience. The Onboard Data Center’s availability reaches 99.99%. The ODC brings web-based technologies onboard, drastically improving software & content deployment processes. It enables the virtualization of the entire software stack, removing the need for tests on physical labs. The ODC also enables software & content deployment at the click of a button in less than 12 hours on the entire fleet.

Teledyne ACES is a certified aircraft cabin environment monitoring system that monitors and provides tangible insight to aircraft air quality, verifying the health of the cockpit and cabin for both crew and passengers, ensuring a safe and optimum operating environment.

Collins Aerospace InteliSence™ elevates the level of service for passengers by providing airlines and crew with reliable, predictive information about their ideal travel experience. This predictive information also helps airlines optimize power consumption, on-board provisions and crew workloads. Utilizing an array of cameras, sensors, edge-computed video analytics and deep-learning Artificial Intelligence, Collins’ InteliSence monitors interactions and collects information from objects within the seat environment. Data from glasses, plates, personal electronics and more is collected and communicated to the service team – ensuring drinks are refilled sooner, bedding is made quicker and faulty equipment is remedied rapidly.

A lightweight and non-invasive inflight connectivity solution, harnessing the power of the Iridium Certus Low-Earth-Orbit satellite network through a proprietary window-mounted antenna.

Conventional aviation carpets use a yarn dyeing process. This process is slow and energy intensive. Complex and colorful patterns end up increasing carpet weight, costs and risk to meet all airworthiness requirements. With Lantal's DEEP DYED CARPET an innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendlier carpet dyeing process is introduced. As the demand for lightweight products increases and pressure on the industry to speed up production and reduce minimum order quantities grows, this solution is a step towards an eco-friendly future in aviation. Imagine a lightweight carpet where design possibilities are unlimited, samples are ready within hours and waste is tremendously reduced. Available today with - DEEP DYED CARPET

A new lightweight, comfortable and sustainable seat design by using Fused Deposition Modelling to print the TPU cushioning. By using this technique, a cushion with different gyroid infill percentages can be made, that supports the human body where needed. This way no extra weight is used, only what is necessary. And this improves the comfort of the passenger on short/medium distance flights. TPU does not need flame retardant coating, this way it can be fully recycled at the end of life.