Alaska Airlines is exploring JetZero's fuel-efficient blended-wing body aircraft design for ... a wise use of real estate (no bathrooms next to a customer seat.) In a BWB, the entire aircraft ...

The plane uses a "blended wing" design, which could improve fuel efficiency by 50%, JetZero and Siemens representatives said Wednesday (Jan. 8) in a press conference held at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

But JetZero believes the potential benefits of the blended wing body design are too compelling to ignore. The biggest perk of a blended wing body is its wider, shorter fuselage, which transitions ...

Turning to the fuselage, 41% of airline respondents and 43% of lessors expressed a desire for a traditional narrowbody design ...

But a blended wing essentially blends those together. Only now can we do that with composite materials that are both light and strong,” O’Leary said in the report. JetZero also announced ...

Aviation startup JetZero has chosen Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Plano, Texas, U.S.) Xcelerator open business platform for the development, production and operation of its blended wing ...