E-BOOK
About JETLINER CABINS
Evolution & Innovation
By Jennifer Coutts Clay
Principal, J. Clay Consulting
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ISBN 0-979-8-218-33203-7
The ONLY Book on Ever-Changing Jetliner Interiors — Now Available as an Interactive E-BOOK.
Prepare for take-off with this fascinating and pioneering interactive E-BOOK about Jetliner Cabins. Airline interiors, like everything else, have changed over the years. All those who have noticed the metamorphosis plus anyone who is interested in the history, evolution, and development of aircraft cabin interiors will enjoy JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation by longtime airline consultant Jennifer Coutts Clay. (Click here to read the REVIEWS.)
In this E-BOOK, you will find everything you ever wanted to know about what goes into creating the aircraft cabin experience when you fly. How do airlines decide the shape and style of the seat, amount of legroom, type of cushioning, functionality of dining tables, and the feel of the whole interior while keeping in mind passenger health and safety and the demands of the flying environment? Design teams face many challenges in the layout of such a tight space, and the solutions and design ideas will surprise you at every turn.
JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation is a visually stunning treat that offers a complete history of recent cabin design going back to the 1970s. The book contains black and white and color photographs of airline interiors from around the world, covering everything from first-class luxury to economy-class passenger experience. Coutts Clay explains all the challenges faced and met by brilliant, interior jetliner-cabin designers from dining, cleaning, safety and durability to sustainability, accessibility, air quality, branding, inflight entertainment and connectivity etc. Air Transport World called the book ‘The first and only comprehensive survey of commercial aircraft design.’
Additionally, the E-BOOK is regularly updated to reflect industry innovations. If you want to know what the airlines have done in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, the answers are here. Since the first publication in 2003, JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation has become the go-to reference for aviation professionals and enthusiasts and is available on Apple Books, the Apple App Store, Amazon Kindle and Google Play. Using the Search function and click points located throughout, readers can navigate the content according to their personal interests. Chapters feature more than 500 organizations, including links to their websites, along with Comments from over 50 international Specialists in air travel, hospitality and interior design and maintenance. The E-BOOK also includes bonus material such as Case Studies, Guest Essays, and Picture Galleries containing more than 8,000 images, many of them vintage.
If you’re a passenger, an interior designer, an architect or an aviation enthusiast, JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation promises and delivers a truly memorable journey.
Cover of the First Edition (Hardback)
JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation is an interactive E-BOOK, available from Apple Books, the Apple App Store, Amazon Kindle and Google Play. In brilliant colour and featuring click-point navigation, it is digitally formatted for enjoying on your favourite personal electronic device, including e-readers, tablets and smartphones. Airliner World described the book as ’The only comprehensive survey of the aircraft cabin environment from the 1970s to the present day,’ and Airports International called it ’A source reference for aviation industry professionals and enthusiasts alike.’
Cover of the First Edition (Hardback)
The First Edition of JETLINER CABINS (ISBN 0-470-85165-1) was published in Hardback by Academy Press of John Wiley & Sons Inc. in 2003. The book was an expansion of the author’s portfolio of articles about the air travel experience and passenger accommodations specifically, published in Aircraft Interiors magazine between 2000 and 2002. The book’s original 16 core Chapters focused on: Product Branding, Passenger Experience, Cabin Maintenance and Marketing Challenge. JETLINER CABINS was a hit with critics and readers, especially in the airline industry. ’For anyone interested in airline engineering, design, branding, from lighting choices to even the colour of airline seats, this is a definite upgrade,’ said Peter Greenberg, at that time Travel Editor for NBC’s Today Show, and ’Clay’s book makes for fascinating reading and looking’ according to Airways Magazine.
The Second Edition (ISBN 0-470-01933-6) was published in Paperback in 2006. Revisions for this edition included a supplement covering high-efficiency new-generation aircraft: the Airbus A380, the Boeing B787 Dreamliner, the Bombardier CSeries (subsequently the Airbus A220), and the Embraer E-Jets. ’You won’t find a more comprehensive look at aircraft interiors anywhere else’ said Aviation For Women, and ’The new updated edition of this unique book is beautifully illustrated and written with great knowledge and understanding of the airline industry,’ according to AirGuideOnline.com.
Cover of the Third Edition (E-BOOK app)
As frequent flyers traded paper for digital, the Third Edition (ISBN 0-991-41011-4), with updated title JETLINER CABINS: Evolution and Innovation, was released in 2014 as an E-BOOK app for Amazon Kindle, iOS, and Android devices. The E-BOOK app contained everything from the print editions, as well as a wealth of new material, such as a chapter on sustainability and ’green’ cabin innovations. Information on the legendary supersonic Concorde joined a series of aviation Case Studies on topics ranging from the glamour of Braniff Airways and the glory days of Pan Am to the importance of accessibility for travellers with special needs. It also featured a collection of curated Picture Galleries presenting over 6,000 vivid images. In a review for Inflight magazine, Steve Lodewyke said, ’It has been immensely comforting to plot a route through an extraordinary book which charts the development of the modern cabin environment in great detail… Each chapter is assiduously illustrated with full-colour photography throughout, including easy-to-scroll Picture Galleries and App Videos.’
The Fourth Edition (ISBN 0-979-8-218-33203-7), an interactive E-BOOK for use with e-reader apps and devices, builds on previous editions with updated Chapter content to reflect the constantly changing jetliner cabin interior environment. It offers new Case Studies on the storied Boeing B747 and on how airlines responded to the challenges of Covid-19. The text has been redesigned to make use of the native capabilities of a range of personal electronic devices, such as indexing, keyword search facilities and cross-references. This interactive E-BOOK provides web-links to over 500 organizations mentioned in the work, and the collection now of over 8,000 images is catalogued across 20 Picture Galleries. Aircraft Interiors International magazine classes JETLINER CABINS: Evolution and Innovation as ’a book that has long been a valuable asset when creating a cabin experience, and an enjoyable resource when looking into cabin design from the 1970s to the present, and onward to the future.’
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Prepare for Take-Off with the Fascinating
and Pioneering Fourth Edition E-BOOK,
JETLINER CABINS: Evolution & Innovation.
JETLINER CABINS:
Evolution & Innovation
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interactive E-BOOK.
ISBN 0-979-8-218-33203-7
