Business Traveller reports that Austrian Airlines is launching upgrades to its European services.
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| Austrian new short haul economy class seats |
By September 2011 new seats will be installed in economy and business class in all Airbus A320s and Boeing 737s. Whilst at the same pitch as existing seats, Austrian claims the new seats will offer up to 5cm of additional knee and legroom, whilst also allowing effectively an additional row to be installed on the aircraft.
Austrian is already publicising the seat with this video which shows how the seat pocket is now behind the tray table, and the seat is made of more breathable fabric.
Of course as European Business Class includes the same seats with the middle seats blanked out, it applies for both cabins.
Particularly interesting is catering. Austrian Economy Class in Europe is having improved catering:
"In practice this means that on flights lasting more than two hours, the carrier will offer an Austrian Brettljause or a “paper bag filled with warm delicacies”. The afternoon snack will feature a range of very Austrian options in future, including a miniature Gugelhupf cake."
Business class will consistently have hot meal service on all routes, except the shortest distance flights.
Good on Austrian, pushing itself as a quality full service carrier on European internal flights.
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