Lufthansa Technik and Airbus Corporate Jets have renewed an agreement under which they cooperate on cabin designs for the Airbus A318 Elite, extending it to 2020. The agreement started in 2005 when the ACJ318 was launched, with Lufthansa Technik contracted to design the cabin in partnership with Airbus and then to install the cabins in customer aircraft.
The Elite cabin “introduced the wider and taller cabin of the ACJ320 to a broader market,” according to Lufthansa Technik. Deliveries began in 2007, with 19 produced to date. Early Elite cabins were installed at Lufthansa Technik’s completions center in Hamburg but later this work was switched to Tulsa, Okla., where the company’s subsidiary Bizjet International has done the work. Recently it completed the first of an updated version–the Airbus ACJ318 Enhanced–which introduced several features as standard that had previously been options, for example, domed ceilings. –I.S.
