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Emirates Airlines Tests Windowless Planes That Project Sky Views

New technology is being tested in aircrafts that isn’t as normal as it might appear.

Thepointsguy.com’s Zach Honig experienced a first-class suite ride located in the middle of the plane. However, Emirates Airline wanted to be able to provide those passengers to still view the sky.

To make that possible, Emirates wanted to create a plane with windows that instead are monitors.


“We’ve demonstrated that with fiber optic cameras relaying the image from the outside, as if you were in the window, the quality of the imagery is so good, it’s better than with the natural eye,” said Tim Clark, the president of Emirates Airline.

The use of this technology will provide an opportunity for developing airplanes with windowless cabins.

“The aircraft are lighter. The aircraft could fly faster. They’ll burn far less fuel and fly higher,” said Clark.

A digital wallpaper with the capability to project outside views for passengers is currently in the works, courtesy of British company Centre for Process Innovation. 

“We could see windowless planes maybe within 10 years,” said Simon Calder, travel editor for The Independent. 

The use of windowless planes could also lead to cheaper flying costs.

“They’re cheaper to make,” Calder said. “They are structurally more coherent and they reduce drag.”

The only thing to be decided is how the general public would react to a plane with no windows. 

“I don’t know if I like that,” flyer Paola Benitez said. 

“I think it would be pretty cool,” Chris D’Esposito countered.

“That would be a little different, a little odd,” another traveler said. 

With the technology for windowless planes still being tested on limited flights, it is still to be determined if the idea will be cleared for takeoff.