The first class cabin where even the AIR is posh! Lufthansa adds humidifiers to help passengers feel fresher upon arrival
- Lufthansa recently installed the feature in its Airbus A380 first class cabin
- It is hoped it will help passengers sleep and improve the taste of food
- But economy class is getting worse with less space owing to extra seats
Now lucky travellers in first class have one more thing to appreciate on their plane journey - better quality air.
German airline Lufthansa recently installed humidifiers in the first class of its Airbus A380s, which will help customers to arrive feeling fresh, it claimed.
It is also hoped the change will improve the taste of food and help passengers sleep more deeply.
'[The humidifier] gives a totally different experience,' Lufthansa chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr told the Times of India last month.
'Passengers arrive in a much better shape after a long-haul flight.'
The installation is set to cause humidity levels to rise by five per cent to 25 per cent in the thinly populated first class, compared to 20 per cent in economy, which is air shared by a larger crowd
The change seeks to address the issues dry cabin air causes for flyers, which include red eyes, parched throats and skin dehydrated.
It is also hoped the change will improve the taste of food and help passengers to sleep more deeply
The change seeks to address the issues dry cabin air causes for flyers, which include red eyes, throats parched and skin dehydrated
AS FIRST CLASS DEVELOPS, ECONOMY SHRINKS IN THE AIRBUS 380
The improvement to the luxury feel of first class juxtaposes strongly with the changes happening to other classes within the Airbus A380.
The company is set to introduce an extra seat to each row of its Airbus A380 model, squeezing yet more passengers onto each plane.
From 2017 there will be 11 seats incorporated into the same space as the current 10 are placed, and a fourth class introduced in response to the new middle seat.
The addition of the centre seat will change the current configuration from 3-4-3 to become a 3-5-3 set up.
At the moment the company uses First, Business and Economy class, but there will soon be the addition of 'budget economy', cleverly branded as Choice Economy.
Some critics have gone as far as calling the new set-up 'economy minus'.
Senior Vice President of Marketing for Airbus Christopher Emerson, told trade publication Leeham News and Comment: 'Ninety per cent of world travellers are economy but not all are homogeneous.
'We want to give a choice to the 90 per cent of the economy passengers. They are going to be the driver of the growth, the doubling of growth in the next 15 years.'
Miraculously the inclusion of an additional seat will not alter the seat width for economy ticket holders.
Currently the width is 18in, which falls in line with the aircraft manufacturer's manifesto 18 months ago to adopt that size as an industry standard.
| DailyMail
