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Delta unveils revamped Airbus

Delta's A319s are getting nine-inch screens at every seat. (Image: Delta)

Delta’s A319s are getting nine-inch screens at every seat. (Image: Delta)

Passengers who fly on Delta’s Airbus A319s will soon start seeing new interiors and technology (and more seats) as the airline carries out what it calls “a nose-to-tail modification” of the 57 A319s in its fleet.

The first of the overhauled 132-seat aircraft enters service this week, with more to come in the weeks and months ahead. The company will also put the new interiors into its 69 larger A320s, with work on all Delta’s Airbus narrow-bodies to be finished by the middle of 2017.

Here’s what the renovation will provide passengers:

  • Nine-inch, high-def seatback screens for a new Panasonic in-flight entertainment system, offering “more content than any other domestic carrier,” Delta said.
  • Pivoting overhead bins that are significantly larger than existing models — large enough to hold 60 percent more carry-on bags, the airline said.
  • USB ports and 110v electric outlets for every seat.

The modified aircraft will also get new galleys and “an innovative, pod-like overhead passenger service unit,” the airline said. It added that the installation of the new entertainment systems in the A320s might take through 2018.

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  1. Again who is the loser in all of this, the folks that fly Delta. They are making a fortune right now and instead of thinking of ways to make flying better, they try to screw us all by putting more uncomfortable and more seats into a plane. When will they learn that the traveling public is going to revolt over stuff like this.
    Probelm is that there is no answer, Airlines like Delta, United and America have asured with mergers that there is no competing airlines that they have to compete with, so they can do whatever they want.

    Guess we all have to revolt by flying Southwest, Jet Blue and Virgin more.

  4. They are moving a restroom to inside the galley to accommodate some extra seats.

  5. When they said “nose-to-tail modification” they meant that people will be crammed in so tightly that your nose will be buried in your fellow passenger’s tail. I see another 737-900 (a miserable plane the way DL configured it) on the horizon.

  9. Very nice… and speaking of Delta, any word on when the new Delta Sky Club lounge will be ready at SFO?

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