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Emirates Has Started To Install New Premium Economy Seats
Today marks a huge milestone for Emirates as they have today officially started to refurbish and install their much anticipated “premium economy seats” on their A380 fleet.
This program is due to last roughly 2 years and they will refurbish 67 A380s from within their fleet.
The first aircraft to have these seats installed has the registration A6-EVM this specific aircraft operated flight EK928 from Cairo to Dubai on the 31st of October 2022, and shortly after the offloading was complete the aircraft was then towed into the hanger where it will spend the next 16 days getting its new seats.
The next aircraft after that to receive these new seats will be A6-EUW on December 1st, and from there on after or every 8 days, 2 aircraft at a time will go into the hangar to get those new seats and a facelift. with the hopes that by 233rd May 2024, this amazing project will be finished before commencing the retrofit of the B777’s fleet.
What Else Will Be Done To The Aircraft?
Well, apart from Emirates installing new seats, the famous showers will also be getting a face-lift, and will feature “new colour tones with a hand-stencilled motif of a Ghaf tree” according to Emirates,
Where Will These New Seats Go?
As you may wonder installing new seats will take up a lot of space, so where exactly is Emirates planning to put these new seats? so, for them to install it, Emirates had to remove 88 economy seats to make room for the new 56 Premium economy seats.
What Else is Changing On The A380?
Apart from these new seats getting installed, Emirates also plans to repaint the business class seats and refurbish first class seats to give them a bit of fresh life.
Conclusion.
Emirates installing a new premium economy seat is defiantly exciting and I certainly cannot wait to try them out and look forward to reviewing it.
