Airbus A340 upgrade for Royal Jordanian

Royal Jordanian (RJ) has completed a comprehensive cabin modernization to the first of its four Airbus A340s serving North American destinations.

It is the lead airline to equip its aircraft with Seat Integrated Technology (SiT), the new, state-of-the-art Audio Video On Demand (AVOD) In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system developed by Zodiac Aerospace.

Director SiT Operations Eric Cornilleau expressed satisfaction with the fact that RJ is the first airline on the globe to choose the SiT.

He said "SiT offers a wholly new ‘simplified architecture’ yielding reduction of the overall IFE system weight, measured with gains of approximately 35%, lowering ownership cost and limiting integration costs, and dramatically improving system reliability, assuring system availability for passengers at nearly 100%."

RJ President/CEO, Hussein Dabbas, said: "The four Airbus A340 aircraft that are being renovated will continue their operations to New York, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal until the 11 Boeing 787 Dreamliners start being part of the fleet, by the end of 2013.  RJ had decided to introduce seven Dreamliners on capital lease and the other four on operational lease basis." www.rj.com

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