Lufthansa Technik and Italian aircraft interior specialist Iacobucci HF Aerospace have reached an agreement on the integration of the 'chair' family into Iacobucci's cabin seating portfolio. After completing design work, Iacobucci is ready to build and distribute the product to VIP and commercial aircraft customers. Work has already started for an undisclosed VIP launch customer.

“For a successful establishment of 'chair', the supply chain needed to be optimised,” explains Lufthansa Technik vice president product division original equipment innovation Andrew Muirhead. “Iacobucci turned out to be the best partner for a fast and robust implementation and we are looking forward to seeing the first 'chair' finally being handed over to a customer.”

“To our experienced seating experts, Lufthansa Technik's 'chair' is one of the most advanced VIP aircraft seats available to date”, adds president and CEO Lucio Iacobucci. “It also offers innovative solutions for first class airline cabins. We are excited and proud having been selected to bring the much-awaited product to market. It is a perfect extension for our comprehensive cabin product portfolio and will enable us to offer an optimal seating solution to almost any VIP cabin completion project on the market today.”

The 'chair' seat design is ETSO-certified (European Technical Standard Order) for 9g and 16g and can hence be installed in any cabin based on narrowbody or widebody aircraft.