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The highly anticipated new first class seats for Swiss risk making the airline’s A330 aircraft nose-heavy. Now it’s scrambling to fix the problem.
Swiss International Air Lines' new first-class seats make its Airbus A330s too nose-heavy. The problem stems from opposing design trends for modern premium cabins versus economy seats.
The First Class seats were either available as fully closed suites (First Suite on Airbus A380 and select Boeing 777-200ER) or as open suite style flat-bed sleeper seats (Old First Class on Boeing 747-400). Between 2016 and 2018, First Class was eliminated from the Boeing 777-200ER fleet in favor of more Business Class and Economy Class seats.
In 2007, Swiss ordered nine Airbus A330-300s to gradually replace existing A330-200s and have three-class seating. The first A330-300 was put into service on the flagship Zürich to New York-JFK route in April 2009. [19] In spring 2010 Swiss operated five A330-300s on medium and long-haul routes.
Swiss International Air Lines: From 2025, the carrier will offer a new pod-like first class on existing A330s, Boeing 777s, and future A350s. Lufthansa: Germany's flag carrier is launching its new ...
The cabin was configured with 241 passenger seats. First and business class seats were equipped with in-seat in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems from Interactive Flight Technologies. [4] The aircraft was powered by three Pratt & Whitney PW4462 turbofan engines and the aircraft had logged 36,041 airframe hours before the accident. [3]: 21–22