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Are Virgin Australia Refitting Their 737s?

Jackbr From Australia, joined Dec 2009, 652 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 3007 times:

Seems I missed something!

A friend on facebook who's a Virgin Australia FA has a photo of the inside of an older 737 with the new seats - how many aircraft have been updated?

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NZ1 From New Zealand, joined May 2004, 2188 posts, RR: 27
Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2884 times:

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About 6 of the existing fleet. All new arrivals from Boeing have them also. Upgrade work is being done in CHC at the rate of 2 a week roughly.

NZ1

qf002 From Australia, joined Jul 2011, 2552 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2837 times:

Quoting NZ1 (Reply 1):
rate of 2 a week roughly.

Wow that's quick! I'd have thought it would take longer than that to totally refit a 737?

Jackbr From Australia, joined Dec 2009, 652 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2745 times:

I guess all they have to do is move the old seats out and put the new ones and J class in.

Are they installing a bulkhead at L1 in the same fashion as the newly delivered 73Hs?

VA787 From Australia, joined Jun 2011, 15 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2724 times:

How about the sky interior? Or is it just the new seats?
Does this also include new paint?

VA787

AusA380 From Australia, joined Jan 2009, 288 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2690 times:

Will they also need to change the galley (forward) to support the J Service?

qf002 From Australia, joined Jul 2011, 2552 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2658 times:

Quoting VA787 (Reply 4):
How about the sky interior? Or is it just the new seats?
Does this also include new paint?

Sky Interior cannot be retrofitted -- this is seats, paint and carpets only (and potentially bulkheads -- not sure). And can I just say that I love your username!! (hopefully some day

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Another question -- I assume that there is no IFE on these birds anymore with the installation of the new seats? They're supposed to be introducing a new system some time soon, so I'm guessing that they'll wait for that?

joffie From Australia, joined Mar 2006, 775 posts, RR: 2
Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 2475 times:

Interesting article here about the future plans

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi...arket/story-e6frg9if-1226144910673

NZ1 From New Zealand, joined May 2004, 2188 posts, RR: 27
Reply 8, posted (1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago) and read 2366 times:

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Full repaints of existing fleet not due to start till January, with the exception of 3 aircraft to be done prior Christmas.

NZ1

bmibaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1635 posts, RR: 10
Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2293 times:

Are the configurations (number of seats) changing during the refurbishments?

bmi.

6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3265 posts, RR: 22
Reply 10, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2038 times:

Quoting bmibaby737 (Reply 9):
Are the configurations (number of seats) changing during the refurbishments?

Down to 174 on the B738 i believe.

so one row of Y goes to make way for 8 (2 rows) of business class.

ditzyboy From Australia, joined Feb 2008, 680 posts, RR: 1
Reply 11, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1980 times:

What is the actual configuration? Their website indicates 8J 168Y. It seems Y has more legroom in front of the overwing exits and around 30" behind. Anyone know the row numbers for the exit rows and last row on the new/reconfigured aircraft?

qf002 From Australia, joined Jul 2011, 2552 posts, RR: 1
Reply 12, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1875 times:

Quoting joffie (Reply 7):
Interesting article here about the future plans

QF is trialing iPads on a 767 -- I think that they're a brilliant idea for shorter domestic hops.

Quoting 6thfreedom (Reply 10):
Down to 174 on the B738 i believe.

so one row of Y goes to make way for 8 (2 rows) of business class.

176. The extra space for J comes from the increased legroom that existed at the front of the plane in Y+.

Quoting ditzyboy (Reply 11):
What is the actual configuration? Their website indicates 8J 168Y. It seems Y has more legroom in front of the overwing exits and around 30" behind. Anyone know the row numbers for the exit rows and last row on the new/reconfigured aircraft?

This is correct, for a total of 176. Exit rows are numbers 13 and 14, last row is number 30.

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