Royal Jordanian is currently undergoing a major expansion, and is also investing a lot in its new passenger experience. This includes the introduction of a new long haul business class seat. The airline has just taken delivery of its very first plane with these new interiors, so I’d like to take a look at what…
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Oof. Horrible timing for a trip to/through Amman. Not enough shawarma in the world to get me to take that trip these days… Looks nice though.
you've completely missed the first row. zoom in, its got higher walls, so 4 better than J seats...
I am confident this is the Collins elements product. Currently in use on A350s with Starlux and 787s on Etihad. The Starlux is quite heavily customized, the Etihad is just a little customized. This should be extremely similar to the Etihad version, if just a little more "basic".
@Lucky how good is RJ about releasing business class award seats to AAdvantage on their US routes? Might be a good way to get to the Middle East once the current tensions die down.
If most planes are owned by leasing companies, do the leasing companies have any say on how the planes hard product? Seems like they would want similar hard products to make them easier to re-lease. Or do they only lease the plane w/o cabin interiors.
The lessee pays for the interior the way they wanted. Just have to be returned airworthy.
It depends heavily. Some aircraft are slots owned by the leasing company, i.e. originally ordered by a leasing company like AerCap, and after the secure the slot they find a customer for it. Other times the aircraft is ordered by the airline and sometime between order and delivery they getn a leasing company to do a "sale and lease back", where the leasing company buys the slot and takes the initial capital risk in return for lease payments. This slot is controlled by the airline. Typically, when the slot is already owned by the leasing company, they may have *some* say, though not very much. The only time they would have full say is if they don't secure a customer by the time interior fixings are needing to be ordered, in which case they'll specify a middle of the road config that they think they can sell.
Taking Royal Jordanian in particular, they received seven 787-8s. Three of them (first, sixth and seventh aircraft) were slots originally ordered by Royal Jordanian while the remaining four were slots originally ordered by AerCap, CIT, CIT and AerCap respectively. All four 787-9s should be Royal Jordanian slots.