In-Flight Catering Delight: Re-Imagining an Airline Service Trolley


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Creator/Artist: Gautham Rajaraja Varma

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Presentation pdf

Supervisor: Prof. P. Kumaresan


Detailed Description

Flying nowadays has become more of a commodity than the 'experience' it used to be a few years ago. With the introduction of low-cost carriers, cutting costs on things that create an experience of flight has become an innovative management technique. The goal of achieving the lowest cost of flying left no room for the experience a passenger or even a crew member gets out of flying in the aircraft.

This project looks closely at one of the aircraft interior components, an airline service trolley, which has not seen a major development over the last 30 years. The aim of this project is to enhance the functionality and usability of the airline trolley by analysing the various issues that are present now and finding a design opportunity in each one of them. Together with this, enough consideration has been given for visual aesthetics as well as the experience a passenger or a crew member gets out of the product.