Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.

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Emirates has launched a premium economy seat on its A350s with a full-height privacy divider that raises electrically, describing it as a world first. Japan Airlines already has full-height dividers in the same cabin class, so the genuine novelty is the motor. The more interesting context is that Emirates is spending on a connecting hub whose surrounding airspace is under a live EU conflict-zone bulletin, and the seat is partly an argument for keeping that connection.

Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a button, on newly delivered Airbus A350s. The airline described it in a statement on Thursday as the world’s first electrically powered premium economy seat, and the divider as the first of its kind in the cabin class worldwide.

That claim rests on three qualifiers stacked together, and TNW has not independently verified...

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