Brussels Airlines has today announced a new passenger experience on their intercontinental flights, which they're calling "a boutique hotel in the air" (that seems like a bit of a stretch to me, but...). Brussels Airlines has a fleet of 12 Airbus A330s (not counting the planes flying for Eurowings), including four A330-200s and eight A330-300s.…
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Looks very meh on both the bar and the seat. Seat looks inferior to the SAS version or even the QF version.
Big yawn from this TATL traveler.
I mean, a self serve coffee machine (which is what that thing in the bottom right of the "bar" looks like) would be pretty awesome. The plus to having a similar seat is there won't be much difference in terms of product which will be good for managing passenger expectations. It is however questionable that they'd spend so much on both the retrofit and marketing materials for what is really a minor enhancement or refresh of the J product, although a proper Premium Economy is a bigger deal.
There is one quite substantial improvement: while the old version of the cabin is laid out in a 1-2-1 / 2-1-2 configuration, the new cabin will have the much more common 1-2-1 / 1-2-2 configuration. This will reduce the number of seats without direct aisle access from 4 to 2 on the A330-200 and from 6 to 3 on the A330-300. Of course, it also reduces the number of throne seats but I think this is a net positive.
I’m surprised Brussels gets any investment at all, it’s obvious that LH wants to make it disappear in favor of Eurowings.
@lucky - did I miss something - I thought Lufthansa was phasing out Brussels altogether and melting it into Eurowings?
A 2 meter long bed sounds heavenly. Being able to actually stretch out to my full length sounds amazing, even if the foothold is too cozy to stay like that for long.
Is't this the exact seat that's on the Swiss 777? Looks very similar for sure. I really like this set up actually, some seats are very private, but you still have the option of having side by side seats when with someone else. makes sense anyways as it would have been already developed for Swiss, R&D costs must be lower 2nd time around.
@lucky the seats are the Thompson Aero Vantage. Qantas uses the much more spacious and entirely 1-2-1 Vantage XL. Perhaps worth updating the article to remove QF as a reference
They can tart it up and talk it up all they like, it's still Brussels Airlines and still unreliable and awful which as the child of Sabena is all it ever could be. Better that Lufthansa just close it down and use Eurowings for shorthauls and brand longhaul Lufthansa.
Referring to a bar is a stretch too far. Passengers hanging around a galley area would be deeply unpopular with crew; this is their space to snack and gossip while avoiding customers wanting things.
Why do so many airlines use these staggered layouts? I think everyone would prefer reverse herringbone seats for privacy, aisle access and foot space, so why not just do that?