Go through a “Gate box”, a giant distributor of meal trays, before boarding the plane and pick from a wide choice of food in a washable box that keeps the snack cool. This futuristic option, valid on short flights, is one of those imagined by Airbus and a dozen airlines around the world to make air travel more “sustainable development” by 2035. It would avoid carrying food unnecessary.
On long-haul flights, the idea is to pre-order meals from your mobile, always before boarding. What lighten the trolleys of the hostesses and stewards who will come to serve them and to do without a lot of chatter. This new “concept” of catering could help according to Ingo Wuggetzen, the vice-president of marketing for the aircraft manufacturer’s cabins “food waste and weight up to 15%”.
But the “Cabin vision 2035 +” project is not content to simply revolutionize “catering”. At a time when aeronautics must “green” its image, and while waiting for the hydrogen plane of Airbus still announced for 2035, it completely rethinks the cabin, making it both more airy, more natural, by use of new “recyclable, repairable and reusable” materials. The aircraft manufacturer believes that “bionic polymers” can “help reduce the weight of the cabin by 40%”, and therefore improve the environmental impact of the aircraft, in flight or during its manufacturing phase. The ambition is to gradually introduce these new materials into the cabins, before deploying them completely in the next generation of aircraft.
These cabin interiors of the future, rather zen, will be presented officially, and life-size, from June 6 to 8 during a specialized fair in Hamburg, Germany.