Putting Profitable Bums into Seats: The Business and Design of Aircraft Interiors

Monocle has this interesting survey of the Hamburg Aircraft Interior Expo, which is a marketplace for everything you could possibly put in an aircraft, from Lufthansa Technik to niche safety-belt manufacturers. There are cool design ideas as well as interesting facts about the tradeoffs in form and function, particularly achieving reliability, low weight, and differentiation in a competitive market.

http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Web-Articles/Aircraft-Interiors-Expo/