From thestar.com.my:
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Bigger and more spacious seats, plus more leg room in both cabins, await passengers. For passengers in first class, they can enjoy watching movies or playing computer games on a 15-inch screen. Its passengers will soon have more than 350 entertainment options, including 40 films, 60 short features and 200 CD titles on demand, all accessible via personal digital touch screens under an upgrade of its in-flight services. Another big plus – you will only have 11 other passengers to share your first-class cabin on the Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
MAS assistant general manager (product development and services) Azmil Hisham said the airline had reduced the number of first-class seats by six to provide more space and privacy to its passengers. MAS had also adopted the Bunga Raya as the design theme for the first class cabins, adding that the airline would spend RM10mil to promote the new cabin features.
For the Boeing 777-200 fleet, MAS has done away with first-class cabins, replacing them with more business-class cabins.
“We will offer 42 business-class seats and 289 economy-class seats on the Boeing 777-200 fleet,” he said.
So far, four of the 777-200 planes have been refurbished and the others will be upgraded progressively.
“Our B747-400 fleet will offer 12 first class seats, 41 business class seats and 306 economy class seats,” he said.
First-class passengers will also enjoy exquisite fine dining on board, even having a dinner set for two.
“It is all about creating an entirely new experience for our premium passengers, from seat luxury and comfort to high-end in-flight entertainment and fine dining,” said MAS managing director Datuk Ahmad Fuaad Dahlan at the unveiling of the aircraft’s new exterior look.
“All these within a cabin ambience created to appeal to the senses, and delivered by cabin crew who have done us proud by being rated the world’s best, year on year.”
Ahmad Fuaad said that over the next two years, more than 3,000 cabin crew members would be trained to extend personalised one-on-one service, and to engage with customers more personally.
A total of 34 aircraft will be involved in this refurbishment programme, which is expected to take two years and cost RM700mil to complete.
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