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- 777-300 ER (delivery starts September) to have SkyCouch like NZ (licensed from NZ), Premium Economy, Lie-Flat J and No F
I am guessing "空中梳化" means Sky Sofa and "梳化" is how Kong Kong translated Sofa to Chinese rather than the "沙發" used in Taiwan?
They use "空中梳化" because it is a trademark. CI is actually licensing the product and the marketing term from NZ so they have to use NZ's prefer nomenclature.
The article actually has a lot of other nuggets of info:
1. Long haul passengers accounts for 10% of all travelers ex-TPE
2. CI will add 3 or 4 new destinations in China, 1 or 2 new destinations in Japan, and 1 new destination in Korea this year.
3. CI apparently believe Chinese Govt will soon allow Chinese citizens to transit in Taiwan so CI is very interested in adding more services to the B and C level provincial cities in China, which have limited international service.
4. CI believes cargo market will pick up and will not send any more 747F to storage (currently 18 active, 3 stored).
5. CI projects LCC will be 35% of the Taiwan market in 5 years.
6. AE will focus on short haul, high demand international routes to differentiate from Tiger Air Taiwan. I interpret that to mean AE will takeover some regional Southeast Asia/Japan routes from CI while Tiger Air takes over low yield pure leisure destinations (e.g. Guam, Okinawa) from both AE and CI.