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Speaker 1: In New Zealand's Dreamliner is going to get a makeover.

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Speaker 1: New seats, new carpets, new curtains, new screens, new business

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Speaker 1: premieer cabin. They've got fourteen of these things are being

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Speaker 1: sent one by one to Singapore for the makeover over

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Speaker 1: the next two years.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Baden Smith is a New Zealand's general manager of Strategy

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Speaker 1: Networks in fleet. Hey Baidenhi have Hey, So how different

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Speaker 1: is it going to look?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look at There's going to be a number of changes.

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Speaker 3: We have an entirely new business class cabin with new

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Speaker 3: seats up there and a new product at the front.

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Speaker 2: Of the plane.

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Speaker 3: We've got new premium economy seats, new economy seats, a

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Speaker 3: new and flight entertainment system and some big changes with

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Speaker 3: some of the soft furnishings as well.

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Speaker 2: So it'll be a pretty major makeover.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to ditch the herring bone seating that

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Speaker 1: you've got in business.

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Speaker 3: Where the current seat will be going? It will be

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Speaker 3: a new seat that has a very small side facing

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Speaker 3: element to it, but certainly not as wait.

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Speaker 1: If you go to business in other airlines like maybe

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Speaker 1: Quantus of Fig Airlines or whatever, you just have the

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Speaker 1: two seats sitting next to each other facing forward. Are

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Speaker 1: you saying you're not doing the facing forward? You're still

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Speaker 1: doing a bit of an angle.

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Speaker 2: A little bit a little bit of an angle.

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Speaker 3: But it's the right thing to do in terms of

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Speaker 3: making sure that we've got the most comfort that we

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Speaker 3: can get on the seat and making use of the

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Speaker 3: space which is at a premium on an aircraft.

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Speaker 1: Did I see that you've got some new seats A

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Speaker 1: business luck seat.

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Speaker 2: Business Lucks.

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Premier Lux. So that's at the very front row.

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Speaker 3: There's four seats on this aircraft that will be Bensin's

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Speaker 3: Premier Lux, which is has a few extra sort of

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Speaker 3: features about it and a little bit more space for

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Speaker 3: those lucky customers.

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Speaker 1: What are the other features?

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Speaker 2: What's that? Sorry?

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Speaker 1: What are the other features?

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Speaker 2: The other features are?

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Speaker 3: It's basically has a bit more privacy and a little

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Speaker 3: bit more space and a bit more stowage up there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, how have you ended up then with fewer

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Speaker 1: seats across the plane because it goes from it goes

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Speaker 1: down to two hundred and seventy two from.

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Speaker 3: What well, we've got two different configurations currently, there's a

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Speaker 3: three hundred and two seat configuration and a two hundred

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Speaker 3: and seventy five seat configuration. So the first thing is

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Speaker 3: is that the three hundred and two seat configurations are

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Speaker 3: the first ones that are going in for this overhaul.

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Speaker 3: They're going to have many more premium seats than the

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Speaker 3: ones that are going in when they come out. And

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Speaker 3: the two hundred and seventy five seat configuration is going

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Speaker 3: to two seventy two as well, So it'll end up

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Speaker 3: across the fourteen to seven sevens that we've currently got

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Speaker 3: just one configuration, but generally more premium seats than we

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Speaker 3: have today.

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Speaker 1: And so are you still going to have the kind

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Speaker 1: of like the neon pink and purples and blues and

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Speaker 1: stuff and there are you changing the color scheme?

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Speaker 3: Oh, the color schemes for us are pretty important and

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Speaker 3: they've been worked on and they'll be ever so slightly

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Speaker 3: different to this new aircraft and I think that will

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Speaker 3: be pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: Oh cool, bad can't wait to see it. Thanks mate, appreciate.

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Speaker 1: It's Baden Smith from in New Zealand.

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