Airbus grants Singapore safety exemption for popular A380 business class seats

Australian Business Traveller, 13 Apr 2011
Singapore Airlines has got the green light from Airbus to fit its delayed A380s -- planned for delivery in 2010 -- with the popular sofa-sized business class seats, according to a report by Mary Kirby of aviation industry specialists FlightGlobal.
The extra-wide seats -- immensely popular with business travellers -- are made by Japanese manufacturer Koito, which was mired in controversy when it admitted falsifying safety data on nearly 150,000 seats worldwide. Full story

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