It’s all about service, he says — and that includes helping people avoid long hours confined without a cigarette break during a long-haul flight.
Schoppmann said in an interview he plans to start flying in March with three leased Boeing 747s, two of them plying the route and one as a backup. The idea is to bring back “the luxury of the old days” by using only 138 business- and first-class seats on a plane that has space for more than 400 people.
TVs, DVDs, telephone and Internet access and flight attendants “in uniforms designed by famous couturiers” are just a few of the frills.