These private jet cabins look more like little lounges

For most of us, looking around a plane means checking where to put the bag and hoping the seat in front does not come back too far. Then you see a cabin with a proper table and a little lounge arrangement. Wait, we are still talking about an aircraft?

These three photographs show private jet interiors displayed at the EBACE exhibitions in 2018 and 2019. They are a look at those particular cabins at the time, with three very different views of the space inside.

A table that changes the whole feeling

This is the passenger cabin of a VistaJet Bombardier Challenger 850, photographed in 2019. The dark table is the first thing that catches your eye. It makes the cabin feel more like a small meeting room than the rows of seats many of us are used to.

Look at the seating arranged around it. There is still an aisle, still a curved wall and still those unmistakable aircraft windows. The familiar bits are there, just put together in a very different way.

A window seat with somewhere to spread out

Now look inside this Gulfstream G650ER, photographed at the 2018 exhibition. The seat, the side table and the wooden finish give this corner a completely different mood from the first cabin.

Its the little arrangement beside the window that makes the picture interesting. A narrow cabin does not have to look the same from one aircraft to the next. Change the materials and where the furniture sits, and the whole space feels different.

And a pair of seats ready for a conversation

This seating group is aboard a Dassault Falcon 7X, photographed in 2019. The pale seats and the row of windows make the space look light and open. You can almost forget how much design has to fit inside that curved shell.

The seats face into a shared area rather than simply looking like one long row after another. It is an easy detail to notice, but it changes the way you imagine spending time there.

Which cabin caught your attention first? For me, it is the one with the table. Though after years of trying to balance things on a tiny tray, perhaps that is not very surprising.