Why will it take so long? US answers! From the new "About US"
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As I stated in an earlier post, "real airlines" such as DL and BA are installing pod type seats in their far larger long haul fleets. At a much faster rate. As many have said in this topic, the seat are great, but just please don't take three years to install them!
The reason for the delay is quite simple, really. Developmental
seats often take longer to produce than expected. Knowing
that, we still decided to choose a new concept – a seat that had
never been produced before – because we believed its unique
reverse herringbone configuration would provide a superior
customer experience above and beyond any other business
class solution available on the market. Although we pushed
hard to meet delivery of our first A330-200, it became clear
over time that additional testing was required.
To protect the delivery schedule of our first few A330-200s –
and provide our customers with a quality product on an interim
basis – we used the same seat type found on our A330-300
fleet. Aircraft 282AY, which is our fourth A330-200 and is
scheduled for delivery this November, will be the first aircraft
to arrive with Envoy Suites in our business class cabin. The
first two A330-200s we received will be retrofitted with the
new seats beginning in January. We’ll hold off retrofitting our
third and fifth A330-200s until fall 2010 when the European
flying season ends. The A330-300 Envoy cabin won’t be
retrofitted until later because additional development work
needs to be conducted to fit seats to its different size and shape
