Air France has unveiled its new long-haul Enterprise cabin, elegantly reasserting the French-style artwork of journey. Continuously striving to supply the highest degree of consolation, the airline’s utterly redesigned iconic seat options much more enveloping curves and additional consolation.
Air France is introducing a brand new normal devoted to this journey cabin. Progressively rolled out on 12 Boeing 777-300s, the brand new cabin will serve South African travellers flying Air France between Paris and Johannesburg.
With attentive service, connoisseur delicacies designed by French Michelin- starred cooks, a rigorously chosen wine and champagne checklist and a large choice of in-flight leisure, the journey can start.
A PRESERVED SPACE
The 48 spacious seats within the cabin are primarily based on the 3 “F”s: Full Flat, which means that the seat transforms into an actual mattress virtually 2 meters lengthy, Full Entry, offering all passengers direct entry to the aisle, and Full Privateness, guaranteeing optimum privateness. The seat cushions have been made even softer to make sure you cross time zones with out fatigue.
A new sliding door permits every passenger to create a completely non-public area, out of sight from the opposite passengers within the cabin.
The seats situated within the centre of the cabin have been utterly redesigned to create a higher sense of privateness for passengers travelling collectively. These seats are now geared up with a central panel that may be lowered by urgent it down, thus making a convivial area wherein to profit from the flight collectively.
Lastly, the seats on the entrance of the Enterprise cabin have additional area in entrance of them for added consolation.
Thanks to this main new step in Air France’s transfer upmarket, the entire firm’s long-haul Enterprise cabins might be geared up with seats that rework into full-flat beds by the tip of 2023, in comparison with 90% in the present day.
AIR FRANCE STYLE
Air France has unveiled a cabin and a seat that elegantly shows its signature colors: navy blue, the presence of white including mild and distinction, and touches of crimson embodying its excellence and savoir-faire. The carpet on the flooring revisits the normal decorative herringbone sample, symbolising the emblematic world of conventional Parisian Haussmann flats.
A SENSE OF DETAIL
As you compromise comfortably into your seat, you might be greeted by a backlit winged seahorse, embodying the founding fable of the corporate and its wealthy historical past. Inside the seat, the smooth upholstery offers a sense of heat and privateness. Air France has chosen noble, smooth and pure supplies equivalent to wool, brushed aluminium and full-grain French leather-based for the manufacture of its seat. Every seat can also be embroidered with the crimson accent, the airline’s model image.
Throughout the journey, all passengers are supplied with a smooth microfiber pillow and a smooth blanket. With a easy contact of a button, it’s potential to regulate the seat recline as desired in addition to the sunshine depth. A brand new ‘don’t disturb’ function can also be obtainable, informing the crew that the shopper needs to relaxation.
STAY CONNECTED
Every seat has a big 17.3-inch 4K high-definition anti-glare display screen, geared up with noise-reducing headphones and, for the primary time, a Bluetooth connection so that prospects can use their private headphones. A new, state-of-the-art graphic interface obtainable in 12 languages makes it simple to select from all kinds of programmes. Greater than 350 movies can be found, together with a big choice of French motion pictures, in addition to TV sequence, documentaries, music and podcasts.
A particular part on well-being additionally permits younger and previous alike to find out about meditation and seated yoga through the flight. Lastly, children now have their very own navigation interface to simply discover all of the leisure particularly devoted to our youthful passengers.
Extremely-connected, the seat additionally options A and C USB ports, an induction charger and a laptop computer socket.
In all cabins, prospects can use Air France Join, the airline’s in-flight Wi-Fi supply. The portal affords three passes, one among which is totally freed from cost and permits prospects to ship and obtain messages. Prospects may also seek the advice of all the data associated to their flight and their connections.
TO ACCOMPANY YOUR TRIP
Consistent with its dedication to extra accountable journey, Air France is for the primary time offering a brand new consolation package product of 96% recycled materials. Its plastic packaging has been eliminated in favour of an integrity seal. Sober and refined, it’s obtainable in two colors, navy blue and beige. Every package comprises a toothbrush and a pen made from maize straw, in addition to earplugs wrapped in kraft paper to keep away from plastic. A big sleep masks, socks, toothpaste and Clarins cosmetics full the package.
By providing these eco-friendly kits, Air France is constant its actions to restrict using single-use plastic on board its flights every time potential.
SIGNATURE DISHES
On long-haul flights departing from Paris, Air France has entrusted the menu in its Enterprise cabin to Michelin-starred French cooks. The best names in French haute delicacies, together with Régis Marcon, Anne-Sophie Pic and Michel Roth, take it in turns to supply vegetarian dishes in addition to refined dishes with crimson or chicken or fish. These meals are enhanced by tableware signed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud. The wine and champagne checklist is chosen by world well-known sommelier Paolo Basso.
On all flights departing from Paris, Air France is dedicated to providing 100% French crimson and chicken, milk merchandise and eggs in all its cabins, in addition to fish from sustainable sources.
A vegetarian dish can also be systematically obtainable. The youngsters’ and infants’ menus are constructed from 100% organically grown produce.
As a part of the struggle towards meals waste, Air France can also be providing prospects the risk of pre-selecting their scorching meal in Enterprise earlier than departure. This service combines the assure of availability of the shopper’s selection with fairer consumption.
The airline can also be dedicated to recycling and eliminating 90% of single-use plastic on board its plane by the tip of March 2023. Lastly, when sure gadgets can now not be used on board, they’re donated to charity.
The brand-new enterprise class cabin is now obtainable for South Africans travellers to get pleasure from when flying Air France.
