Lufthansa plans to install 32,000 new seats in its 170 aircraft used for domestic and European routes over the next year.
So far, the airline has outfitted one Airbus A319 with the new relaunched product. The Recaro seats will feature a slightly reduced pitch that is now at 30-31 inches. That enables the airline to add another 18 seats to its Airbus A320s or 10 more seats to its A321s, which will have room for 200 passengers in the future. At the same time, Lufthansa claims that passengers will actually have more legroom because the seat backs are thinner and inflight magazine storage is moving up behind the tray table. At about 10 kg, the seats are more than 30% lighter than the previous model.
Lufthansa is also reintroducing inflight meals on almost all flights in economy class. Hot meals are served on flights longer than 2 hr.
The airline plans to introduce new business-class seats when it takes delivery of its first Boeing 747-8. That is planned for late 2011.
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