ANA and Safran unveil new luxurious business class seat for Dreamliner fleet 

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has unveiled a new business class seat for its Boeing 787-9 fleet. 

The new seat, which is called ‘THE Room FX’ (where FX stands for ‘Future Experience’), was publicly unveiled on June 17, 2025, during the Paris Air Show. It aims to enhance the premium experience offered by the Japanese airline onboard its Dreamliners. 

It draws its design philosophy from one of ANA’s existing premium products, called ‘THE Room’, which has been fitted on the carrier’s Boeing 777-300ER fleet since 2019. However, its developers, Safran Seats – a subsidiary of the French aerospace giant, and British design studio Acumen – have updated the existing design with some additional elements. 

Both the seat’s outer shell and its sliding privacy doors have been thinned out slightly, in order to lighten the cabin, which brings corresponding weight savings, while continuing to offer a high degree of privacy.  

One of the key features of ‘THE Room FX’ is that, rather than having a reclining backrest, the seat pan is sufficiently spacious that it can either be arranged into a sofa-like position, or else turned into a full-lie flat bed by lifting and changing the position of the lower part of the seat. The seat comes also with a larger in-flight entertainment screen (IFE) than those available in previous iterations of ANA’s business class cabin. 

Another feature of the new ‘THE Room FX’ cabin is that it will alternate front and back-facing seats – an arrangement which, the airline hopes, will contribute to an enhanced sensation of space within the B787 cabin. 

AeroTime had the opportunity to visit a full-size exhibit of ANA’s new ‘THE Room FX’ seat at the Paris Air Show, where it was being showcased by Safran Seats. 

This has been a rather eventful air show for the Japanese carrier, which made headlines on its first day, by placing an order for 27 Airbus A321neo aircraft, including three of the longer range XLR version. The post ANA and Safran unveil new luxurious business class seat for Dreamliner fleet  appeared first on AeroTime.

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