For a couple of years now, we’ve known that Lufthansa plans to introduce new business class cabins on its Airbus A380s. While this project was first supposed to start in 2025, that timeline was ultimately delayed.
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Nothing revolutionary, but definitely an improvement for business class passengers on LH’s A380.
Plus, the ratio of bathrooms to business class passengers improved slightly as well.
Aaaaand then there’s BA with 0 retrofitted A380s two years after announcing their retrofit
A-380 is a grandiose box to carry more and more pax , and charge more and more money .
The pax likely don't use mouthwash , and the FAs likely don't wash their hands before handing you a drink by the rim .
I'd rather go in an ancient deboardable 707 , than a crowded and impossible to deboard 380 .
As a German who grew up in a country which was once innovative, but which now has the strong tendency to overthink and overdo things (Allegris anyone), I’m already happy if they do just something 😀
Is this the same seat SAS has in their a330s? To be installing this in 2026 is ... unfortunate
Unrelated question - which seat did Egyptair install in their a350s? Same seat as their 787?
These seat will be available for use in 2032. When all of the strikes are over and flying restarts.
I wonder how much LH pays to the person (people) who comes up with all these incomprehensible names/acronyms (ie., FOX, XXL, and those to come in the future).
Clearly A-Lert, you have never saved enough pennies in your piggy bank to be able to afford an F Cabin seat, in a World Class Airline. The jealousy in your rhetoric speaks volumes about your cattle class travel aspirations …. Yes?
Don’t knock it until you have tried it darlink …. 🙂
Yes, it was an innovative country once upon a time. But not in the last 20 years. It’s a complete s*hitshow now. The economy, society, politics, businesses everything in the dump.
Not installing Allegris is the best decision LH has made in a long time. When does Spohr get canned over the mess the airline is in?
Simple, nice, elegant. I'd like to try both, but I may actually prefer this to the craziness with Allegris. Bah!
If Lufthansa wants to keep their new cabins smelling nice, they should avoid flying these aircraft to India at all costs.
Imagine if they had just installed this on their entire fleet this whole time, skipped the messy certification delays and they would have a viable product in their entire fleet. Now they have a confused mess with multiple seat configurations across different aircraft and an Allegris seat product that is roughly only average in 2026.
In pictures, it looks so much more spacious than Allegris. I would be perfectly happy with this product. In a perfect world, LX would scrap the seats for the 330 refurbishment and install these seats. Install a generic 4-seat first class as well...
Lufthansa's A380 are now seeing a 3rd type of business class.
1st type was the one they were introduced in the fleet with which was an outdated product in 2-2-2
2nd type is the current one which is being replaced.
3rd type is this new one which is much better.
When airlines were introducing their A380s with state of the art products back in 2007-2012, Lufthansa, Air France and British Airways introduced their A380s with the most outdated seats at that time. Air France retired all their A380s earlier. BA is still flying them with those outdated business class seats which will be replaced soon.
But Lufthansa missed the opportunity to go 4 abreast when they reconfigured their A380s with the current 6-abreast business class seats. At that time their CEO (not sure whether it was Franz or Spohr) was asked why he did not choose a product which was 4 abreast and he responded that "Germans enjoy/like talking to each other while flying and that they like seating next to someone".
That was a dumb excuse to not go 4-abreast earlier. It seems that Germans no longer like to talk to each other while flying.