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Aeromexico’s warm and welcoming social space for its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has been made a reality by the expertise of AIM Altitude. Aerospace Manufacturing reports.

AIM Altitude designs, manufactures, certifies, and maintains cabin interiors for some of the world’s major airlines and other OEM airframers, including premium customised monuments, social spaces, bars, galleys and stowages, composite components and a full-service product support capability.

The Door 2 boarding area of Aeromexico’s new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was engineered and manufactured by AIM Altitude to completely deliver the design vision and brand intent.

Aeromexico, Mexico’s global airline, operates more than 600 daily flights and its main hub is in Terminal 2 at the Mexico City International Airport. Its destinations network features more than 80 cities on three continents, including 45 destinations in Mexico, 18 in the US, 15 in Latin America, four in Europe, three in Canada and two in Asia.

The journey began back in April 2014, when Aeromexico visited AIM Altitude’s exhibition stand at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, looking for a world-class manufacturer to deliver its ambitions.

Aeromexico engaged AIM Altitude shortly after the Expo and commissioned New Territory to design and detail the concept for the Door 2 monuments as part of the overall aircraft interior. AIM Altitude worked hand in hand with both to define the area and to take the design intent from concept, to reality.

All of AIM Altitude’s specialised engineering and manufacturing expertise was used to create the highly complex monuments for Aeromexico, including the asymmetric forms that create a welcoming, open, entrance and the all-important, pleasing first impression.

The design and form of the monuments required highly complex mouldings and tooling. The monuments were engineered using the latest lightweight technology with great emphasis on ensuring durability, reliability and maintainability.

 AIM Altitude has delivered the design vision and brand intent of Aeromexico’s Boeing 787-9 Door 2 boarding area
AIM Altitude has delivered the design vision and brand intent of Aeromexico’s Boeing 787-9 Door 2 boarding area

Combining ambience and aesthetics

AIM Altitude delivered the subtle, warm and inviting lighting system imagined by New Territory, which gives the perfect ambience for the open and convivial space. With lighting being one of the most critical parts of any new aircraft furniture, special consideration was given to the overhead ‘Sky light’, designed by New Territory which Aeromexico considered a critical, interior element.

Attention to detail was vital to the scheme and AIM Altitude created a custom-designed, aesthetically pleasing, latching system for the galleys and stowages which helped maintain the design ambition.

Together, AIM Altitude and New Territory worked closely using a proof of principle methodology, testing concepts at critical intervals to see how they performed. This hands-on approach continued throughout the build, with each unit being hand crafted in AIM Altitude’s facilities in the UK.

“There were many hurdles to overcome in successfully executing the programme for Aeromexico but we are very proud of the successful outcome,” states AIM Altitude’s vice-president corporate accounts, Matthew Eyre. “The boarding area, or ‘Espacio Premier’ is light, bright, and friendly, giving the hospitable feeling you would expect from Aeromexico.”

The new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s features include 274 seats - 36 flat-bed seats in Clase Premier - with a 180° recline, plenty of legroom, increased storage for carry-on bags, large windows that go dark at the touch of a button, a modern in-flight entertainment system with individual 18in touch screens in ‘Clase Premier’ and 11in touch screens in the Economy cabin, and Sky Interior LED lighting.

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