If you are wondering about the future potential for OLED technology, you might want to look up – quite literally. That is because LG Display is pioneering a new OLED market in the mobility field by advancing OLED solutions for aircraft. The aircraft display market presents high entry barriers because it has the highest standards for mobility products in all aspects, including durability and safety. Let’s find out more about LG Display’s plan to lead the way in this untapped OLED market based on its advanced technology.
A groundbreaking collaboration with Boeing EnCore Interiors
In collaboration with Boeing EnCore Interiors – a subsidiary of Boeing, a leading global aerospace company – LG Display showcased a smart cabin display at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2025 AIX) in Hamburg from April 8-10. AIX is the world’s largest exhibition of aircraft interiors and in-flight entertainment equipment, attended by over 13,000 participants from approximately 400 companies, including airlines and aircraft parts manufacturers.
LG Display showcased a 55-inch OLED welcome board for aircraft cabins, which is one of the first products of its kind to feature “Shy-Tech” for aerial displays. Shy-Tech is a technology that allows displays to blend into the interior design of their surrounding location. Therefore, it typically goes unnoticed – but it provides functionality when needed.
Welcoming passengers to a differentiated aircraft cabin experience
LG Display’s 55-inch OLED welcome board for cabins utilizes a high transmittance film specially designed to fit the interior of an aircraft. The special film applied to this panel is attracting attention as the optimal solution to provide a differentiated cabin experience for individual airlines, as it can be customized according to each customer’s needs. While this OLED display for aircraft normally remains hidden in the surrounding interior of the cabin, it reveals itself as needed – such as to offer boarding passengers a welcome greeting, flight information, and seating directions.
It is convenient and maximizes efficiency because passengers can intuitively check necessary information right away, allowing crew members to focus on other tasks that require their attention. In addition, this product boasts high aesthetic value with a design that perfectly blends with an airline’s brand identity in terms of interior design.
The OLED welcome board builds on LG Display and Boeing’s successful collaboration at AIX 2024, when the companies demonstrated OLED concepts for aircraft in line with reliability and safety standards.
OLED’s advantages for aircraft after years of development
Based on its OLED technology accumulated over the past decade, LG Display has been studying OLED panels for aircraft that can meet the industry’s strict standards. OLED panels are considered an optimized technology for the limited space of aircraft cabins, as they are lighter than LCDs. Because they do not require backlights, they are able to not only increase flight efficiency, but also be implemented in thin, curved, or transparent form factors.
In addition, each OLED pixel emits its own light to realize perfect blacks and excellent color reproduction, so viewers can enjoy content more clearly even in dark environments – such as on board an aircraft. Another advantage is that OLED displays emit only half the sleep-impacting blue light as LCDs, meaning they offer comfortable viewing even on long flights.
“We plan to provide OLED solutions for aircraft that deliver differentiated customer value, not only in terms of safety but also design and experience, through research and development with global companies that lead the aviation industry,” an LG Display official said. “We will secure technologies to uncover unbounded opportunities in the aviation display market.”
Speaking of those opportunities, the global aircraft display market is expected to reach more than 2.5 billion by 2032, with an annual average growth rate of 7.4 percent from 2024 to 2032, according to market research.
