Thursday, 30 October 2014

Lufthansa to introduce Premium Economy Class and upgrade its First and Business Classes

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                   / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Lufthansa which exhibits at ITB Asia 2014 is introducing Premium Economy Class on all flights of its Boeing B747-800 fleet as early as 1 December 2014.

Premium Economy Class seats will make up some ten per cent of the entire seating capacity on each wide-bodied aircraft. 

Over the next few months, Lufthansa will fit between 21 (Airbus A330-200) and 52 (Airbus A380-800) new seats in each of its aircraft. Onboard the B747-800 aircraft, 32 seats will be modified in line with Premium Economy Class specifications. The airline commissioned a total of 3,600 seats from the manufacturer ZIM.

Besides Premium Economy Class, Lufthansa is working intently on upgrades to First and Business Classes onboard all its long-haul aircraft which will be completed by late summer 2015.

On 2 October 2014, a special two-hour B747-800 (the "Schleswig-Holstein") flight under LH9880 took off from Frankfurt to introduce the new Premium Economy Class.

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