delta airlines adding first class seats

Delta airlines is expanding the First Class cabin on more than 60 percent of its mainline domestic fleet – approximately 350 aircraft – as it responds to business customers' requests for more premium cabin seating.
The change is part of Delta's one billion dollar plan to upgrade services, including plans to equip some planes with flat-bed seating for extra legroom and other amenities like overhead storage space.
Currently, Delta offers first class services on its Embraer 170s, Embraer 175s and Bombardier CR1700s, Bombardier CRJ900 planes. They feature nine to twelve First Class seats and 56 to 64 coach seats. Flights that offering a first class cabin provide meals, china and linen service. Additional benefits include free cocktails, wine bear and a pre-departure beverage.
Delta plans include as part of its fleet 219, two-class regional aircraft service to 272 domestic routes, which may be run by regional carriers Pinnacle Airlines, Chatauqua, SkyWest and others. Once plans for upgrades are complete, which are expected by this fall, there will be 50 routes featuring Delta Connection flights with one service class offering economy and first class. The carrier currently maintains eleven percent of its domestic seats as first or business class choices.

By summer 2013, Delta will add more than 1,200 First Class seats to its domestic MD-88, MD-90, Boeing 757-200 and Boeing 767-300 aircraft as it retrofits and upgrades the aircraft interiors. The initiative, which follows the addition of First Class cabins to all Delta Connection regional jets with more than 60 seats, does not impact Delta's previously announced capacity guidance.
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In addition to upgrading its domestic fleet, Delta will offer full flat-bed seats on more than 100 widebody aircraft, feature personal, in-seat entertainment for both BusinessElite and Economy class customers on all widebody flights, and complete new terminal facilities for international customers at its two largest global gateways – Atlanta and New York-JFK.