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September 3, 2010
Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will equip all of its 16 747-400s with "new fully horizontal flat-bed seats in the BusinessElite cabin and new economy class seats featuring personal, on-demand entertainment." The installations, which are part of the carrier's plan to invest more than $1 billion through 2013 in improving its products and services, will begin next summer and be completed by 2012. When the program is complete DL will offer fully lie-flat seats on more than 100 aircraft including all of its 777s, 767s and 747s. President Ed Bastian said the investment "to completely revitalize our trans-oceanic fleet speaks to our strong commitment to the Asian market."
DL's 747-400s will feature 48 horizontal flat-bed business-class seats manufactured by Weber Aircraft. The seats will be 81.7 in. long and 20.5 in. wide and will include Panasonic's 15.4 in. video monitors "with instant access to 250 new and classic movies, premium programming from HBO and Showtime, video games and more than 4,000 digital music tracks." The 747-400 economy seats will be collaboratively designed by Weber and Panasonic, DL noted. The seats will "fully incorporate seat and entertainment functionality into one product." DL's 747s are mostly used for transpacific and intra-Asia flights to/from Tokyo Narita.
September 3, 2010
Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will equip all of its 16 747-400s with "new fully horizontal flat-bed seats in the BusinessElite cabin and new economy class seats featuring personal, on-demand entertainment." The installations, which are part of the carrier's plan to invest more than $1 billion through 2013 in improving its products and services, will begin next summer and be completed by 2012. When the program is complete DL will offer fully lie-flat seats on more than 100 aircraft including all of its 777s, 767s and 747s. President Ed Bastian said the investment "to completely revitalize our trans-oceanic fleet speaks to our strong commitment to the Asian market."
DL's 747-400s will feature 48 horizontal flat-bed business-class seats manufactured by Weber Aircraft. The seats will be 81.7 in. long and 20.5 in. wide and will include Panasonic's 15.4 in. video monitors "with instant access to 250 new and classic movies, premium programming from HBO and Showtime, video games and more than 4,000 digital music tracks." The 747-400 economy seats will be collaboratively designed by Weber and Panasonic, DL noted. The seats will "fully incorporate seat and entertainment functionality into one product." DL's 747s are mostly used for transpacific and intra-Asia flights to/from Tokyo Narita.