Air France Unveils New 777 Business Class Seats With Doors

This seems to have come out of nowhere.

Air France introduces business class seats with doors

Air France hopes that a new business class product will help it move even more upscale. Air France is working with Cirrus for its new business class, which will feature reverse herringbone seats with aisle access and doors.

Air France will be adding doors to its existing reverse herringbone seats, but it will also be redesigning them. Air France has designed a seat that is based on 3.

• Full flat, meaning that the seat transforms into a real bed almost two meters long
• Full access, providing all business class passengers direct aisle access
• Full privacy, ensuring optimal privacy thanks to the addition of doors

The seats will feature a noise reducing headset, a new bluetooth connection, and several electric sockets. The planes will also have wi-fi.

The first images of the new cabin look great, and I love the lit up winged seahorse on the front of each storage console.

Air France will reconfigure 12 Boeing 777-300ERs

Air France is going to retrofit 12 of its Boeing 777s with new seats. The planes will be completely different from the previous ones, and will feature 369 seats.

• 48 business class seats
• 48 premium economy seats
• 273 economy class seats

Air France's latest premium economy and economy is already found on other jets.

New York will be first destination to get new cabins

The first Boeing 777 with new seats is expected to enter service in September 2022.

The first plane with the new cabins will fly to New York JFK. It makes sense to offer a premium product to a market like New York, but these reconfigured jets won't feature first class.

Air France doesn't offer first class on all frequencies to New York, so my guess is that the new frequencies will replace the old ones.

I wouldn't read too much into this in the context of the future of first class. I think that some of the jets without first class being reconfigured are the ones that only feature first class. Air France will install first class on some A350s.

Bottom line

Air France is introducing a new business class seat on some of its Boeing 777s, with the first plane expected to enter service in September. This is great news as sister airline KLM will be introducing a new class soon.

It is nice to see an airline only announce a new product shortly before it enters service, rather than years in advance.

What do you think about Air France's new business class?