Pre Covid Air NZ planned a refurb of the existing 777 BP seats that was basically a minor refresh. The plan was to update the seats before the arrival of the (then) 787-10 in 2022 that would have the new seat.

Remember the -10 was initially going to replace the 777-200ER which was supposed to start existing the fleet around now. Obviously Covid changed a lot with the 200's existing early and the -10 being swapped for -9's at least for the first few arrivals from 2024 onwards.

Here's the snippit from the 2019 presentation -

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"Wade Gardiner: (Craigs Investment Partners, Analyst) In - just in terms the of roll-out of the new Business Premier product, starting from the end of calendar 2019, how long will that go for? What should we assume in terms of the CapEx on that?

Christopher Luxon: Yes, so, really again, that’s coming out of the Hangar 22 exercise and that’s taking the existing seat and reinventing it so that we can create more storage and more space. It kicks off at the end of this year and will be completed by December 2020. Over the course of the year, we should be able to roll that across our fleet.

Christopher Luxon: [Unclear] from today till 2022, end of 2023 when the new aircraft start flooding through, we want to make sure that we have a contemporary product that actually supports the revenue premium.

Wade Gardiner: (Craigs Investment Partners, Analyst) Right and then from about ’23 onwards, when we start getting in new aircraft, we might have a whole new product all together?

[Over speaking]

Christopher Luxon: ... brand new introduction of everything which we’ll then roll-out everywhere again.

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