Cabin Interiors
Lufthansa × Pearson Lloyd
A380 business class cabin.
Pre-delivery CGI for the A380 business class retrofit — visualising the new cabin months before the first aircraft entered the hangar in Dresden.
Pre-delivery CGI for the A380 business class retrofit — visualising the new cabin months before the first aircraft entered the hangar in Dresden.
Lufthansa committed to retrofitting all eight of its A380s with a new business class cabin — replacing the ageing 2-2-2 layout with a modern 1-2-1 configuration using the Thompson Aero Vantage XL platform, designed by Pearson Lloyd.
We produced the CGI for the programme ahead of the physical retrofit, giving Lufthansa and Pearson Lloyd the visual assets to communicate the new cabin to press, passengers, and internal stakeholders — months before the first aircraft entered the hangar at Elbe Flugzeugwerke in Dresden.
Pearson Lloyd's brief centred on applying Lufthansa's new brand language to the Vantage XL — a pre-certified seating platform — allowing the programme to move at exceptional speed without compromising design, brand, or comfort. The CGI had to match that pace.
The new layout reduced business class from 78 seats to 68, introducing direct aisle access for every passenger and flexible privacy partitions. Every surface and material finish had to be accurate to the final design intent — these images would represent the new cabin ahead of the physical product.
The A380 business class retrofit received coverage across aviation press, with the first retrofitted aircraft entering service on Munich to Los Angeles in April 2026. Selected coverage:
Lufthansa Group Newsroom — Official retrofit announcement Aerospace Global News — First A380 with new business class One Mile at a Time — A380 new business class analysis The Points Guy — A380 business class upgrade Pearson Lloyd — A380 Vantage XL cabin retrofit
Arteconi have played an important role in helping us communicate and visualise complex cabin interior concepts across multiple projects and platforms. Giacomo combines a strong understanding of design intent with speed, flexibility and a consistently high standard of output.
If you have a cabin reveal, livery launch or new aircraft programme on the horizon, the visual work starts now — not at first delivery.