Feb. 02, 2024<\/p>\n
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Southwest Airlines reveals new seats, cabin designs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Southwest Airlines is getting a face-lift.<\/p>\n
The Dallas-based carrier revealed details of a new onboard product Friday, featuring a refreshed look and a new seat design.<\/p>\n
Want more aviation news? Sign up for TPG’s free biweekly Aviation newsletter<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n The new cabins will be on board newly delivered jets starting in early 2025, the airline said. They were created in collaboration with Tangerine, a London-based design firm that’s worked on numerous airline products before \u2014 like Japan Airlines’ new A350 interiors<\/a>. The cabins are based on what Southwest described as “extensive research” involving customers and employees and their “perceptions of color, comfort, and their aspirations for the overall onboard experience.”<\/p>\n The new seats were designed by Recaro and feature a few useful features, including an adjustable headrest and a personal device holder on seatbacks. Overall, the cabin features a deep blue hue with lighter blue accents. It has nods to the airline’s heart logo throughout, including woven into the carpet and on headrests.<\/p>\n Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n Reward your inbox with the TPG Daily newsletter<\/p>\n Join over 700,000 readers for breaking news, in-depth guides and exclusive deals from TPG\u2019s experts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “Our redesigned cabin interior significantly enhances our inflight Customer experience and will complement the amazing service that our Crews provide,” Southwest Chief Customer Officer and Senior Vice President Tony Roach said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Southwest told TPG that aircraft with the new interiors would feature the same layout as current aircraft. Recaro offers several lightweight yet comfortable economy seats<\/a> that have proven popular with low-cost carriers for their slim size, allowing more seats to fit on a given aircraft. In some cases, those slim seats save so much space that an extra row or more can be fit into existing planes.<\/p>\n Most of Southwest’s fleet will feature either the brand new cabin, or the retrofit interior within the next few years, although the airline did not specify an exact timeline for the refurbishment of existing planes.<\/p>\n Related reading:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Featured image by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES<\/p>\n Editorial disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are the author\u2019s alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2024\/02\/southwest-new-interior-1-2-scaled.jpg?width=3840\"\/)
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