HAL is major beneficiary of latest Indian procurement approvals
India has approved millions of dollars in new military purchases, most of which will go to public sector companies.
Japan Airlines lauded for laptop-friendly seat design
Japan Airlines has won a Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organisation (JIDPO) award for its international premium economy seat, which includes a tray big enough for a fully opened A4-sized laptop.
Manufactured by B/E Aerospace and introduced just under a year ago, the Sky Shell Seat offers 20 per cent more legroom than is available in JAL’s economy class. It features a shell-shaped sliding seatback designed to ensure that the occupant’s available space is unaffected when the seat in front is reclined. Other amenities include a 9in widescreen monitor and in-seat power.
The seat was introduced on the airline’s daily Tokyo-London flight on December 1 last year. It is now also available on flights from Tokyo to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York, Paris and San Francisco, and on Osaka- London. It will be introduced on Tokyo-Moscow next Saturday, on Nagoya-Paris on December 6 and on Tokyo-Chicago and Los Angeles after next April.
JAL has now won a total of four JIDPO awards. In 2002 it was recognised for its international first-class seat, the Sky Sleeper Solo. The following year laurels went to the JAL Shell Flat international business-class seat, followed in 2004 by an award for the Class J domestic business-class seat.
In other JAL news, a first-class cabin will be offered from January in the Boeing 747-400s that the airline uses to operate its daily Tokyo-New Delhi service. The cabin will feature the Skysleeper lie-flat seat with 6.4in screens delivering IFE through a Rockwell Collins system, and Bose noise-cancelling headsets.
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