AIR NEW ZEALAND has made public its first refitted Boeing 747-400, featuring lie-flat beds, digital in-flight entertainment at every seat and a new class of travel for the New Zealand market, called Pacific Premium Economy. The seat itself is manufactured by Contour and is very similar to that fitted in Virgin Upper Class (see below). The carrier claims to be the only airline to offer a truly lie-flat bed at a business class price, into and out of New Zealand. Further aircraft of the eight strong 747 fleet, will be refitted approximately every six weeks, with completed aircraft to be progressively introduced on the Auckland ” Los Angeles ” London route, from 5 November and other routes during 2006. The same interior design will be used on Air New Zealand's eight new Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, the first of which is due to arrive in October this year. For its total long haul fleet of 16 aircraft, ANZ will require 101,737 items of crockery including 13,735 salt and pepper sets, 643,048 items of cutlery, including 95,183 metal teaspoons, 10,601 serving trays, 76,970 items of linen such as pillow sets, linen serviettes, sheets and tray cloths for Business Premier Class, including 2,852 luxurious duvets for the new lie-flat beds.
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