Gallery: SWISS Rolls Out Airbus A320neo Airspace Cabin

Linda Blachly January 20, 2022
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The Airspace cabin offers an advanced lighting system with “Human Centric Lighting” that can be aligned to travelers’ biorhythms. Depending on the time of day or night, the system will bathe the cabin in varying types of light that range from warm reds through graduated intermediate tones all the way to cooler blue hues.

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Seating comfort has been further enhanced, with the slimmer cabin sidewalls offering more space, especially at shoulder height.

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The Airspace cabin features larger overhead baggage bins that offer substantially more volume than their conventional counterparts.

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The luggage bins can accommodate bigger baggage items up to 61 x 40 x 25 cm. They also hold up to four carry-on cases (instead of the present three) by enabling these to be stowed vertically in the bin.

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The A320neo will be deployed throughout SWISS’s European route network. The first commercial flight with the new Airspace cabin is scheduled for the end of January. SWISS has taken delivery of five new A320neos and two new A321neos. The remaining 18 neos on order—12 A320neos and six A321neos—will join the SWISS fleet through 2025.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), which is part of the Lufthansa Group, has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320neo featuring the new Airspace cabin. Aircraft HB-JDD has been named "Elm” after the Swiss alpine village that is home to the “SWISS Altitude 1150” mineral water that the airline serves on board. HB-JDE, a further Airbus A320neo that was delivered a few days later and bears the name “Mürren,” is also equipped with the advanced new Airspace cabin.  SWISS said the advanced new cabin provides travelers with an enhanced air travel experience on SWISS short- and medium-haul European routes from the end of January 2022.

Linda Blachly

Linda Blachly is Senior Associate Editor for Air Transport World and Aviation Week. She joined the company in July 2010 and is responsible for producing features for Air Transport World’s monthly magazine and engaging content for the aviationweek.com. She is based in the Washington DC office.

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