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UK airline bmi has revealed that it is planning to introduce new lie-flat beds.

The electronically adjustable bed seats will be available on all the operator's long haul routes for business class passengers from June 2007 and will come complete with an 80-inch seat pitch.

Speaking during a visit to Saudi Arabia to mark the first anniversary of the popular London Heathrow-Riyadh route, bmi chairman Sir Michael Bishop said: 'We are proud and delighted to be the only British carrier serving Saudi Arabia and are confident that our investment in the introduction of lie-flat beds will create further demand and growth on these routes.'

The Perseus bed seating will be fitted to the whole bmi fleet of Airbus 330 aircraft in a 2-2-2 configuration at a cost of £2m, operating on routes including Manchester-Chicago, India, Barbados and London Heathrow-Riyadh.

The second biggest scheduled airline in Britain, bmi operates around 1,700 long flights a week worldwide.

The company started a new service between the UK and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia earlier this year and recently announced that it is increasing the frequency of flights on its routes between Manchester Airport and both Aberdeen and Glasgow in Scotland from next month.



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