Why do first -class seats contain new planes

Heated or cooled seats. TV screens. Benches. Converted beds. Access to all passages. And of course desired privacy door.

According to the heads of the largest manufacturers of aircraft who have more luxurious booths of the first and business class, which have hundreds of parts and require permission of the regulator as new planes come to customers.

Boiling Has 787 Dreamliners, Jetliner, used on some of the world’s longest flights, on the Earth at the South Carolina plant “, which are being delivered on-site that obviously go quite late during the assembly process,” said CEO Kelly Ortberg at the Galina Barclays conference on February 20.

The part of the problem is that the airlines defeat high-paying customers, offering the benefits and a more scarce place on the board when several additional inches.

“This is a certified seat, and it’s not really part of the seat,” Ortberg continued. “This is an office and a door … for the first class and the business class. These are quite complex systems, and the certified providers have taken places and we have longer than expected.”

Such problems are the main competitor of Boeing Airbus, CEO of the European Guillaume Faury manufacturer, said the same day of sunset.

“We have delays in the seats,” as well as the “monuments” cabins, like galleys and cabinets that “delay the time in which we can deliver the plane fully completed,” said the headlights.

Companies together make up the vast majority of the commercial aircraft market.

Deliveries of the aircraft are crucial for manufacturers’ revenue because customers pay the bulk of Jetliner’s value when they receive the plane rather than at the first order.

Some new aircraft cabins are still waiting for certification and delays are added to years supply chain Deform and labor deficit leaving the pandemic.

In recent weeks, Trump administration has fired hundreds of federal aviation administration workers in costs. The agency said the positions were not “critical security” but have not said whether the staff problems could slow down aircraft or other certificates.

Getting modern places set in front of the cabin means millions of income for airlines. For example, Delta Air Lines On Friday, for the first of May, for $ 816 sold a ticket to the standard economy within the framework of “New York and Paris” for $ 816. Go to the Delta One, the top -level seat, and the same route jumps up to $ 5.508.

Longer ranges of new planes compared to old models open new continuous routes for carriers.

“Now no one is happy,” said Henry Harteweld, founder of Travel Consulting Comply atmosphere Research Group. “They are unable to get their new shows.”

The business class seat can have about 1500 parts, and the weight is a key, especially for the industry that has taken great pain to remove the fuel weight. This includes the use of thinner seating magazines to make lighter cutlery.

Germany Recaro, a large manufacturer of the plane, says it R7 The business -class seat weighs about 80 kilograms, or about 176 pounds.

“You are trying to do everything so easily and also get a pleasant aesthetic value,” Harteweld said.

The Swiss carrier of Switzerland, Swiss, said that the center of gravity had shifted in some planes after checking its new seat models, so it should make changes to the design and examine the “weight plate” before new places can fly to commercially.

Customers “clearly signal to us that it’s time to modernize the interiors of our Fleet’s cabin, especially (Airbus) A330,” the Swiss spokesman said in an email. “At the same time, we are working on decisions and watching trends and technologies that can allow us to achieve another or more useful weight distribution.”

Airlines working to refresh the front of their planes cover the globe: Qantas, Delta, Delta, Delta, Delta, American JetBlue and others. New Allegris Lufthansa cabins at Boeing 787s are being certified, the press secretary said.

Singapore Airlines said in November that it would bring this The first class seats Up to the longest flights, more than 17 hours. In the press release, CEO Gon Chun Fong said proposals “push the limits of comfort, luxury and modernity.”

For its part, American Airlines waits for months to debut a new place for its wide body aircraft and just won permission for those working at 787-9 Dreamliner. A spokeswoman said the airline is working with regulators and plans to submit new apartments on its Airbus A321XLR, a long version of Airbus key aircraft and its upgraded Boeing 777-300er this year. It disclosed Places in September 2022 and initially planned debut last year.

“The most important thing I can say on all these fronts is what we depend on the supply chain. Now that the supply chain, especially against places, is very tough,” said CEO Robert Izo Izot Profit in October. He said the company’s message to the suppliers and partners: “” Work with us to make sure we get them – it’s equipment – on the dock, as expected, “and we are really pushing to make sure it is now.”