Spirit Airlines has launched its new interior, to be used in its Airbus A320neo aircraft and standardizing the interior colors of the aircraft in yellow and black.
Inside we have a new carpet, replaced to standardize the colors, emergency signs in a new pattern and the change of seats.
Here are some changes to Spirit's cabin and seating:
- The storage compartment and security cards are now raised to provide more legroom.
- The tables have been expanded to “full size”.
- Middle seats will gain an additional inch of width. Now they are 18 inches wide, while the other seats (window and aisle) are 17 inches wide.
- Each seat gained nearly an inch of pre-recline. Seats in the emergency exit rows have a higher pre-recline.
- By style and thickness, the new seats should have two inches of additional usable legroom when compared to industry-standard flatback-type seats.
The first seats have been installed in Spirit's Detroit hangar on a brand-new Airbus A320neo delivered earlier this month.
The seats were manufactured by Acro Aircraft Seating, and will be installed by the company on the A320neo aircraft already present in the fleet, while the new planes should come standard with these seats, in addition to the internet system via Wi-Fi.
The company also designed new trolleys for use by flight attendants, the famous “trolley”, now weighing 4 kilos less than the trolleys already used by the company. The weight saving is added to that existing in the seats, 1,18 kg in each seat, adding up to a total saving of almost 230 kg compared to the previously used interior.
Spirit will retain the standard eight 2-2 seats at the front of the aircraft, totaling 182 seats internally.
