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AIRCRAfT INduSTRy
Enhanced Experience
AIRLInES COnTInUE TO pUSh 43 economy comfort and 208 economy
aircraft manufacturers for additional class seats. Business class comes in a
seats on their single-aisle airplanes, 1+2+1 layout, with Zodiac Cirrus III seats
while enhancing the cabin ambience and convertible to fully flat beds and 16-
comfort on twin-aisle jets. The cabin inch touch-screen IFE system. Economy
appointments of wide-body twin aisle comfort seats offer four additional inches
airplanes have undergone a paradigm of legroom over 31-inch seat pitch Zodiac
shift, and the A380 is taking the lead in Z300 slim-line seats in economy. The
featuring some of the most opulent first Airbus A320 family, now also provides
and business class cabins to take to the options for more seats than ever before,
sky. Qatar Airways, unveiled the first of with improved cabins and slimmer seats
Finnair’s A350 XWB cabin its Airbus A380’s last month (it has 10 on on offer. Airbus and Zodiac Aerospace last
design created by Helsinki
firm dSign Vertti Kivi & Co order) with only eight first class full-flat month announced a second option of their
and includes 46 seats in seats with a 90-inch pitch and 26-inch video integrated “Space-Flex” PRM (Persons
Business Class with Zodiac screens. Finnair, the first European airline with Reduced Mobility) lavatory and galley
Cirrus III seats convertible to to order the A350 XWB has chosen a 297 module “Space-Flex v2”. With its larger
fully flat beds seat configuration, with 46 business class, galley area, it maintains the original
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