Singapore Airlines A380 Interior Unveiled

[peter991]

Singapore Airlines unveiled its cabin interior on its first A380 jet last night when it took delivery of the world’s first largest passenger plane.

Business Class

The airline configured the super-jumbo with 471 seats in three classes, including a new ‘Cabin Class beyond First’ which is fitted with 12 Suites on the main deck. This is followed by 60 Business Class seats on the upper deck and 399 Economy Class seats across both decks.

The new design is expected to deliver unprecedented comfort, space and luxury to passengers, after being created with the help from some of the airline’s most frequent travellers.

Some of the new cabin products have already been introduced on Singapore Airlines’ new Boeing 777-300ER long-haul aircraft.

The Singapore Airlines Suites is said to be ‘in a league of its own in terms of privacy, luxury and personal space’, offering almost a meter wide seat with a fully adjustable and simple to use seat control panel to arrange it in a variety of sitting and lounging positions.

Cabin crew makes up a full-sized bed with plush mattress when the passenger is ready for sleep; and the airline has pulled out all the stops with top French fashion house Givenchy designing the plush duvet and cushions.

The bed does not convert from the seat and is instead designed separately into each Suite. It uses separate sleeping and sitting surfaces offer passengers the choice to rest in their preferred positions. For couples travelling together, the beds in the middle two seats can be converted to an optional double bed.

Singapore Airlines A380 Business Class will offer passengers the world’s widest business class seat. The seat can also be transformed into a full-flat bed, with the added bonus of allowing passengers to be able to lounge in bed or watch TV or eat.

The seats can be arranged in a forward facing, four-abreast (1-2-1) configuration giving each passenger direct access to the aisle. Passengers will also enjoy a 15.4 inch LCD screen fully equipped with USB ports and in-seat power, as well as dining and bedding designed by Givenchy.

A Passenger Corner has also been designed for Business Class customers offering snacks between meals.

Singapore Airlines A380 Economy Class gives customers greater comfort through improved seat design which also offers more personal space, legroom and knee room. Passengers will be able to enjoy watching movies on the larger 10.6 inch screen in each seat.

Singapore Airlines’ inflight entertainment system has also been upgraded and will offer a wider selection of entertainment options including 100 movies, 180 TV programmes and a library of 700 music CDs, music channels and learning applications.

An exclusive feature on Singapore Airlines is the option to work during flights with a comprehensive suite of office applications offered on KrisWorld and combined with the USB thumb drive it allows passengers to save their work before landing.

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[britmaveric]

Like to see economy class....piccies.

[Florin]

Economy class will be like their new 777-300 product, i.e. 10'' LCD screens, USB ports, power plugs...go SQ, any geek's airline of choice!

[JonnieB]

Singapore is my favorite airline but you really do have to pay for quality sometimes. One thing I don't get with all these new sleeper-bed seats and the prices you pay for them in business and first is why pay for them when on long-haul flights you are basically asleep for half to two-thirds of the time. It seems a waste of money to me...at least for a leisure traveler. If you were a businessman on a business trip and wanted to arrive fresh and ready for a big meeting on arrival I guess it would make sense. Just a decent business class semi-recliner/sleeper is good enough for me.

One goal in life, however, is to fly somewhere on Singapore 1st class

[Florin]

I think their Economy prices are actually very competitive for longhaul trips if compared with other carriers, and quite a bit cheaper than TG/BA, etc. sometimes...and I love the fact that all their tickets can be changed right up until a week before the departure date.

[torrenova]

Not that many seats though.

[enyaw]

I think their Economy prices are actually very competitive for longhaul trips if compared with other carriers, and quite a bit cheaper than TG/BA, etc. sometimes...and I love the fact that all their tickets can be changed right up until a week before the departure date.

SQ deffinately great value, we currently have special return fares to SYD from LHR/MAN starting from £550 plus tax and this would include travelling on the SQ 380 SIN-SYD sector.. PM me for more details.

[Captain Chaos]

I think their Economy prices are actually very competitive for longhaul trips if compared with other carriers, and quite a bit cheaper than TG/BA, etc. sometimes...and I love the fact that all their tickets can be changed right up until a week before the departure date.

As opposed to their biz class fares which are 'kin outrageous at the moment ... that's why I fly to Europe on TG on my quarterly biz trips ... an extra 3 hours or so to save S$3k ... not a difficult decision for me ...

[LaoPo]

Like to see economy class....piccies.

More here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pict...ered/html/2.stm

LaoPo

[cdnvic]

Singapore's A380 'has no first class'

by Adam PlowrightMon Oct 15, 9:58 AM ET

"There is no first class on this plane, sir. This is Suite Class," repeats the Singapore Airlines steward as she shows off the front of the plane to curious onlookers.

All of the guides parroted the same line on Monday as the carrier unveiled what it called a "new standard for luxury and comfort" in the Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger jet.

First class has been rejected by the Asian carrier as a label for the 12 seats on the plane that feature 58-centimetre (23-inch) flat-screen televisions, sheets by French designer Givenchy and a full-length bed with separate mattress.

For couples with the money, there is an option to join two suites together to make a double bed, forming a self-contained bubble for two with closed sides and complete privacy.

"The piece de resistance will be our new premier cabin which will introduce a travel experience beyond first class," said Chew Choon Seng, chief executive of Singapore Airlines.

The business class area will have the biggest business seat of any airline, measuring 87 centimetres across, while economy passengers will benefit from extra legroom and a more spacious cabin area.

Singapore Airlines has fitted just 471 seats in the 600 square metres (6,460 square feet) of floor space available in the double-decker plane, which can take a maximum of 853 passengers in an all-economy configuration.

A staircase at each end links the two levels and the business and first class areas have a self-service bar with food and drinks.

There are none of the more fanciful ideas discussed when development of the plane was launched in 2000, such as restaurants, gyms, showers, beauty salons or casinos.

Nevertheless, Singapore is banking on some travellers being prepared to pay more for space and comfort and has mounted artwork and designed space for flowers to brighten the interior of the aircraft.

The "suite class" seats on the Singapore-Sydney route, on which A380 flights will begin regularly from October 28, are to be 40-80 percent more expensive than first class on a Boeing 747, a spokesman told AFP.

The price of a suite is to be about 8,000 euros (11,400 dollars), roughly 1,000 euros per hour of flying according to an AFP calculation.

Other early buyers of the A380 such as Qantas of Australia or Dubai-based Emirates are also expected to limit seat numbers to about 500, but analysts believe in the future other carriers might use the plane's capacity to the full.

Fitted out in mostly beige, brown and white, both levels in the plane feel spacious because of the almost vertical sides of the fuselage, which is far bigger than its nearest rival for size, the Boeing 747.

Singapore Airlines also claims passengers will notice the significantly reduced noise pollution, mainly because of the new technology used in the four Rolls-Royce engines that will power its planes.

The in-flight entertainment system, developed by Japanese electronics group Panasonic, includes more than 100 films, 180 television programmes and numerous computer games, available in all three classes.

In economy class, which has two aisles with either 10 or nine seats across depending on the floor, passengers will have a 27-centimetre television screen, a power point and computer functionality.

The inflight entertainment system includes word-processing and spreadsheet software and the handset has a keyboard. Documents can be downloaded on to a USB key.

Thomas Enders, the chief executive of Airbus, predicted that other airlines would look at what Singapore had done and would attempt to follow suit.

"The impact of Singapore Airlines' cabin innovations will ripple out across the industry," he forecast

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071015/lf_af...80_071015135820

[LaoPo]

Singapore's A380 'has no first class'

The price of a suite is to be about 8,000 euros (11,400 dollars), roughly 1,000 euros per hour of flying according to an AFP calculation.

Still, I'll bet it will be sold out, every trip...

LaoPo

[PhilHarries]

For couples with the money, there is an option to join two suites together to make a double bed, forming a self-contained bubble for two with closed sides and complete privacy.

Dam_n there goes the exclusivity of the mile high club, now any old riff raff can join.

"The piece de resistance.............."

is a French virgin.

[Patsycat]

I wouldn't want to get off!! Just fly around the globe in my Extra Extra First class seat/bed watching 100 movies... If i could afford it, of course. Time to do the Euromillions lottery again...

[britmaveric]

Looks like nice space in between seats in economy - I think I like. Shame they didnt space out seats a bit, but spose u can't have everything.

Edited October 17, 2007 by britmaveric

[ovenman]

OK, that's SQ's plans for the A380. Anybody want to bet that there are any number of other carriers with A380 plans that involve cramming in as many economy class seats as they can, and then an extra hundred or so seats for good measure?

[hotgeekus]

Thankfully no American carriers can afford the new Airbus, as they would cram them full of economy then upcharge economy plus....