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Aircraft Interior And Seat Design: Priorities Based On Passengers’ Opinions, Peter Vink, Gerbera Vledder, Yu Song, Britta Herbig, Anna Sophie Reichherzer, Neil Mansfield

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

Comfort is an important factor for passengers in the selection of airlines, and electric propeller aircraft will be an important element of future sustainable aviation. In this paper, we studied the order of importance of different (dis)comfort factors regarding traveling with propeller aircraft. Two experiments were conducted, one was a simulation flight on the ground with 33 participants and the other were two real flights with 97 participants. All participants were asked to rank the importance of different (dis)comfort factors in different phases of flights. Results indicated that though there are differences between the simulation and the real flights, noise, …