3 Ways Airlines Can Use Wasted Cargo Space to Improve the Passenger Experience
Photo Credit: The architectural concept behind Zodiac's 'Desire Lines' Life Style cabin is to redistribute cabin space vertically and horizontally, including to the hold, and creating alternative class configurations tailored to passengers' travel profile and choice of in-flight activities. Zodiac Aerospace
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The extra room in cargo could be used to fit more passenger luggage (airlines make a nice profit from that) but most already travel with enough baggage. New ways to structure the cabin, using lost space in the hold to improve the passenger experience, would be most welcome.
If some designers get their way, excess room in the belly of the plane could be used to improve the passenger experience.
Airlines have long benefited from cargo revenue to cover losses from passenger services and balance out their books, but recently the cargo business has been soft, leaving room in the belly of the plane for new design concepts.
IATA reports weak cargo performance in 2015, shrinking from soft demand at the end of 2014. While the average passenger load factors (the percentage of an aircraft’s seat capacity which is actually sold) was high at 80.6% in 2015, the average freight load factor (the percentage of freight c
