Aircraft Interiors Expo 2027

How it compares

World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo is the closest companion. Its suppliers address catering, onboard retail, amenities and passenger comfort, while AIX concentrates on equipment installed in the cabin. An airline choosing both a seat environment and the service delivered around it can use the two shows to connect engineering specifications with the onboard product.

APEX FTE EXPO in Singapore brings the inflight experience together with airport operations, passenger processing and digital transformation. That broader passenger journey and its APAC connections suit customer experience and technology partnerships extending from the terminal to the aircraft. AIX is the more focused setting when the project centers on cabin materials, seating, equipment integration or a retrofit program.

Passenger Experience Conference complements the supplier floor with a strategic conversation among airlines, OEMs, designers and suppliers about the future onboard environment. It is useful for framing the problems a cabin program needs to solve; AIX then gives the team equipment and suppliers against which to test that thinking. The choice depends on whether the trip needs a design and engineering sourcing floor, digital partnerships spanning the airport and the cabin, or both.

AIX is the right trip for airline cabin, engineering and procurement teams turning a passenger experience concept into equipment and retrofit decisions.

Who exhibits

The mix runs from airframers and cabin integrators to narrow specialists. Airbus and Diehl Aviation sit alongside Bucher galleys and cabin fittings, Acro seating, Bluebox digital inflight entertainment and DuPont Tedlar surface materials. That range matters because a cabin program crosses several supplier disciplines: a finish must fit the structure, a seat must work with power and lighting, and a digital service needs compatible hardware. The floor lets engineers and product teams compare those dependencies in one setting.

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Aircraft Interiors Expo 2027

AIX 2027 continues the move into business aviation through the BizJet Interiors Zone, with bespoke seating, premium materials and cabin technologies alongside the commercial aircraft supply chain. The Intelligent Cabin adds a focus on emerging technologies and startups. The IFEC Zone brings hardware, software, connectivity and content into the same sourcing conversation, while CabinSpace Live and AIX Connect connect the equipment floor with industry discussion and buyer-supplier meetings.

• Treat the IFEC Zone as a separate sourcing track: compare connectivity hardware alongside content services, cabin management systems and digital onboard retail.
• Use the BizJet Interiors Zone when the project involves bespoke seating, luxury materials or a business aircraft cabin completion.
• For a cabin project that also changes meals, amenities or onboard retail, divide the sourcing work between AIX equipment suppliers and World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo.