The Harmony cabin design fits into wide body planes such as the Airbus A330neo. Photo / Supplied
The Harmony cabin design fits into wide body planes such as the Airbus A330neo. Photo / Supplied
At the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva Airbus Corporate Jets had some rather special designs on display.
The Harmony cabin design fits into wide body planes such as the Airbus A330neo, but it looks like it wouldn't be out of place in some sort of luxury hotel-cum-spaceshuttle.
The design fits around Airbus planes and offers full control over lighting and environmental settings.
The cabin shell has been designed to make maximum room inside the plane. With everything they have planned for the inside of the plane, this is just as well.
The curves of the inside design also have the effect of accentuating all this space. Round tables and concentric rings of upholstery wrap around the cabin.
It's all very space age. A revolutionary holographic projector will make you feel like the set of the latest Star Wars movie. Sitting in the 'grand entrance' it can summon up a three dimensional globe to plot out your airplanes location and trajectory.
Great entrance: a holographic projector of in-flight information. Photo / Supplied
ACJ have designed the interiors to be a sociable environment. The Airbus 330 is designed to carry between 247 to 406 passengers, so presumably this design concept is to keep the six or so passengers from getting lost in all that space.
The Harmony also has room for a master bedroom, with en-suite bathroom, four guest suites and a rest area for crew to escape to.
Then of course there is the office. You can't escape paperwork even at 15000ft, however you might as well conduct business affairs at the height of luxury.
"Long-haul flights provide time for productive work and socialising, as well as rest, and ACJ's Harmony cabin concept is wonderfully well designed to enable all of these while bringing the world within a single flight," explains ACJ President Benoit Defforge.
The ACJ330neo is essentially a flying hotel. Adapted from Airbus's A330, it is for the ultra-rich globe trotters for whom a private jet is too pokey.
