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Who designs the airplane interior?

I always wondered about this. There are thousands of airlines, and each of them has their own seat map, seats, IFE despite its similarity. So, who designs this? Does Airbus or Boeing receives specific requests from airlines or does airline designs it individually? Or is there a separate third party who only does this?

Public Comments

1. Al Gore
2. Is per customer requests when they buy their planes from the manufacturer.
3. The airlins decide what goes in to their aircraft.
4. In large passenger aircraft, the customer (airline) picks out the colors, fabrics and amenities for the interior of the airplane, and the manufacturer finishes the aircraft to the specifications given. For smaller, or privately owned airplanes, there are several companies around the world who specialize in custom fitting aircraft interiors to the owner's specifications. Sometimes a new airplane is delivered "green" (unpainted) to the completion center, where it will also receive a custom paint job as well as the interior work before being delivered to the owner.
5. airbus & boeing design the interior of all aircraft !!! they apply different type of interior for all airplane you can have an A330 with a 362 seat configuration or a 230 ,each airlines order their airplane with the amount of passenger they want on board .
6. Very small people with short legs.
7. This is dependent upon the owner opperator. There are many companies that design interior for aircraft. Duncan Aviation is one that does interiors on many many aircraft. Go to Duncanaviation.com and you can see for yourself. These are typically done done on aircraft from Lear Jets, Hawkers, Gulfstreams, Westwinds, Challengers, Falcon's.. and anything else that will fit in the door. As far as fleets they typically will have a contract with a the aircraft manufacturer or someone else. There are many companies out there that specialize in interiors
8. Aircraft interior designers.
9. these guys dont know what they're talking about. I decide how the interior of planes should look. I have a lot of influence in the aviation industry.