Main airline to spend over $800M to improve cabins of long-haul plane

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Singapore Airways introduced on Monday that its long-haul and ultra-long-haul Airbus A350-900 planes will bear an inside makeover. 

The newly introduced retrofitting initiative meant to “redefine the premium travel experience” on the plane is predicted to be completely accomplished by the tip of 2030, the corporate mentioned. 

Beneath the initiative, Singapore Airways will carry up to date enterprise class seats and “refreshed” premium financial system and financial system cabins to its 41 A350-900 planes, with its A350-900ULR plane additionally slated to get a firstclass cabin.

An Airbus A350-941 from Singapore Airways is making ready to take off at Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Barcelona, Spain, on Might 1, 2024. (JoanValls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

With the deliberate retrofit, the configurations of the 41 jetliners will change. For the long-haul planes, that may imply 42 enterprise class, 24 premium financial system and 192 financial system seats, Singapore Airways mentioned. 4 first-class, 70 enterprise and 58 premium financial system seats will likely be supplied on the retrofitted seven ultra-long-haul plane. 

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The cabin makeover for long-haul and ultra-long-haul jetliners will value greater than $834 million whole, the airline mentioned. CEO Goh Choon Phong mentioned the initiative got here after the provider “extensively engaged customers and stakeholders in the design of our next-generation long-haul cabin products” over six years.

Singapore Airways mentioned the first-class cabins on the seven ultra-long-haul planes will function “plush” seats and a “spacious layout.”

The cabin, pre-retrofit, is pictured onboard a Singapore Airways Airbus A350 on the gate at JFK airport earlier than a scheduled direct flight to Singapore within the Queens borough of New York Metropolis on Nov. 11, 2020. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri / Reuters)

The brand new enterprise class seats that the Singapore Airways A350-900 planes are slated to get have “innovative designs that will offer even greater levels of privacy, comfort, and convenience,” the airline mentioned. They will even provide extra room to passengers.

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The airline can be aiming to “enhance the travel experience” for premium financial system and financial system within the redesign, in response to the corporate.

Singapore Airways plans for the brand new cabin designs to seem on the primary retrofitted A350-900 long-haul airplane within the second quarter of 2026. The debut of the primary redesigned ultra-long-haul will happen within the first quarter of 2027. 

An Airbus A350-941 from Singapore Airways is taking off from Barcelona Airport in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 29, 2024. (Urbanandsport/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

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Earlier within the 12 months, Singapore Airways was named 2024’s second-best airline on the earth by Skytrax. It additionally obtained high marks amongst Asian airways and for its first-class and cabin workers, in response to Skytrax.