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Bmi confirms short-haul seat revamp

23 Mar 2011 by BusinessTraveller

As reported by Business Traveller last year, Bmi is to install new short-haul seating on its A319 and A320 aircraft, along with new carpets, curtains, bulkheads and lighting.

The seats will be fitted to Bmi’s nine A319 and five A320 aircraft by this summer, and follow the carrier’s decision to refresh its mid-haul seating (see online news November 22, 2010), an upgrade which Bmi says will be completed by the end of May.

The new short-haul seats are lighter in weight than their predecessors, so Bmi says the refurbishment will also “assist in aircraft performance by reducing overall aircraft weight”.

Along side the installation of the seats the carrier is also fitting new new carpets, curtains and bulkheads, as well as a “dynamic new lighting system, giving a spacious look and feel throughout the cabin”.

It had been thought that Bmi would opt for the same short-haul seat being introduced by Lufthansa and Austrian (see online news November 25, 2010), a slim seat design allowing the carriers to offer increased leg room while at the same time fitting more rows of seats on the aircraft.

This is now understood not to be the case, although both seat products are being supplied by German manufacturer Recaro.

For more information visit flybmi.com.

Report by Mark Caswell

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