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Spirit\u2019s new seats, padded with ultra-light weight foam and\nmade of a composite skeleton, will add comfort without increasing weight,\nmaintaining high fuel efficiency on Spirit\u2019s Fit Fleet\u2122. According to\nergonomics experts, these innovative enhancements allow for a wider range of\nhealthy postures and movements, offering an additional two inches of usable\nlegroom compared to industry-standard flatback seats with the same pitch. The\nnew, softer seats include a full-size tray table and an elevated literature\npocket and are designed in a matte-black color with border stitching in\nSpirit\u2019s signature yellow. Installation of the new seats will begin in November\nand continue through 2020 on all new Spirit deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, Spirit is adding comfort to its Big Front\nSeats\u2122, making the best value in the sky even better. Spirit\u2019s updated Big\nFront Seat\u2122 will feature a new ergonomically-improved headrest with plush\nmemory foam, additional memory foam in the seat cushion for comfort and thigh\nsupport, and sleek Spirit-branded aesthetic with yellow and black stitching.\nGuest feedback and survey results helped guide these design enhancements with\nmanufacturer HAECO Cabin Solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLast year I signed a pledge to look at every facet of our\nGuest experience and determine where we could improve. This investment in our\nseats and onboard experience is a direct result of that commitment, and it also\nallows us to enhance our product value while maintaining our industry-leading\ncost structure,\u201d said Ted Christie, Spirit Airlines\u2019 President and Chief\nExecutive Officer. \u201cWe have listened to our Guests, and we are responding with\nthese new, more comfortable seats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christie continued, \u201cWe also believe it is time for our\nindustry to rethink the concept of seat pitch, a metric many industry experts\nand aviation media have called antiquated and misleading, given the broad\ndifferences in seating measurements that more directly affect passenger\ncomfort. Our research shows that many Guests not only misunderstand the concept\nof pitch, but strongly believe that comfort derives from usable legroom. Our\nnew seats now offer more usable legroom with their innovative design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Partnering with the Charted Institute of Ergonomics and\nHuman Factors (CIHEF), Spirit Airlines conducted in-depth analysis on the\nergonomics and comfort of the new seats. Both beautiful and efficient, the\nseats were designed to curve gently around a Guest\u2019s back to create a\ncomfortable posture and make available more usable legroom. Spirit also\nconducted a research study to understand perceptions around seat pitch and seat\ncomfort. The brand-agnostic study showed that most people, from a sampling of\nmore than 1,000 air travelers, did not know the true definition of \u201cseat\npitch\u201d, the space between a point on one seat and the same point on the seat in\nfront of it. In fact, only about 5 percent of respondents were able to\naccurately describe seat pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPitch is an outdated industry term for measuring seat\ncomfort, as it does not consider a range of important key factors like seatback\ncurvature, seat width, cushion thickness, and usable space,\u201d said Steve\nBarraclough, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics &\nHuman Factors. \u201cThe \u2018Usable Legroom\u2019 metric is the distance from the center of\nthe back of the seat cushion to the outer edges of the seat in front. We\nbelieve this metric provides a potential basis that all airlines could\ncalculate and could offer the passenger new, evidence-based information about\nthe potential comfort of the seat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new seats were announced on stage at the APEX (Airline\nPassenger Experience Association) EXPO. Spirit plans to share its plans for a\nnew cabin redesign this November, complete with updated branding and a more\nmodern look and feel for Guests to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpirit Airlines today unveiled a new generation of seats\ndesigned to give greater recline, full-size tray tables, more memory foam\ncomfort, enhanced ergonomic comfort, and more knee space to their guests,\u201d said\nDr. Joseph Leader, CEO of APEX. \u201cAPEX applauds our airlines for taking genuine\nsteps to advance customer experience, but the best actions by our airlines are\nwhen they genuinely give more within existing space as Spirit has done today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To learn more about how Spirit is Investing in the Guest and\nwatch a video highlighting the new usable legroom seat comfort measurement,\nplease head to www.investintheguest.com\/#newseats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spirit Airlines is advancing its promise to invest in the Guest experience by unveiling new, more comfortable seats that provide additional usable legroom. Spirit\u2019s new seats, created by UK-based Acro Aircraft Seating, integrate state-of-the-art design features, including thicker padding, ergonomically-designed lumbar support, and additional pre-recline. Middle seats will also gain another inch of width, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-spirit-seats-9-9-19edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}