Singapore Airlines’ New First Class Has a Double Bed and Business Class Gets Doors, Starting in the Second Half of 2027

On November 6, 2026, Singapore Airlines unveiled its next long-haul cabins: a First Class suite whose center pair turns into an 80 by 60 inch double bed, and a Business Class seat with a sliding door. The airline says it is spending more than S$2 billion on new seats in all four cabins.

The seats arrive from the second half of 2027 on 41 retrofitted Airbus A350-900s and on the Boeing 777-9. The airline’s 12 A380s, home of its Suites, are not part of the program.

First Class: sliding doors and a shared bed

The airline’s release and its seat annexes put six First Class suites on the 777-9 and four on the A350-900ULR, all in a 1-2-1 layout behind curved sliding doors. Each single bed is 80 inches long and 30 inches wide.

In the center pair, the divider retracts on request and the two seats move together into a sofa or a bed 60 inches wide. SIA calls it the largest double bed in commercial aviation.

The suites were designed by PriestmanGoode and are built by Collins Aerospace, with Poltrona Frau leather and an 89.5-inch pitch. Every suite has a 32-inch 4K screen (OLED on the A350-900ULR), Bang & Olufsen wireless headphones and a table big enough for two to dine facing each other.

Solo travelers give up some width. Mainly Miles notes that today’s 2013 First Class seat and bed on the 777-300ER are both 35 inches wide, against 30 inches for the new single bed.

Business Class: doors, a straight bed and narrower seats

The new Business Class seat, designed by Designworks and built by RECARO Aircraft Seating, adds a sliding door at every seat and an electrically adjustable divider between the center pair. Selected center seats can be made up as a companion bed.

The bed is 79 inches long and up to 24 inches wide. The table stows at an angle to open what SIA calls a generously sized footwell, which tackles one of the main complaints about the 2013 seat it replaces, where sleepers lie diagonally with their feet in a cubby.

The trade-off is width. SIA lists the seat at 24 inches on the 777-9 and 22 inches on the A350s, and Mainly Miles puts today’s 2013 Business Class seat at 28 inches.

Each of the 34 long-haul Airbus A350-900s gets 42 of the seats, each of the seven A350-900ULRs gets 70, and the 777-9 gets 54.

Which aircraft get which cabins

Only the 777-9 gets all four new cabins. On the A350s, Premium Economy and Economy keep their current seats with a refresh, as SIA said when it announced the retrofit in November 2024.

Cabin	A350-900 long-haul (34 jets)	A350-900ULR (7 jets)	Boeing 777-9
First Class	None	New, 4 seats	New, 6 seats
Business Class	New, 42 seats	New, 70 seats	New, 54 seats
Premium Economy	Refreshed	Refreshed	New, 36 seats (2-4-2)
Economy	Refreshed	No Economy cabin	New, 204 seats (3-4-3)

SIA flies the A350-900ULR on what it calls the world’s longest routes, and the jet has never had a First Class cabin. Four suites at the front, ahead of Business and Premium Economy, make it a three-class aircraft.

Why the A380 is left out

SIA’s A380s already carry the Suites and Business Class launched in 2017. The MileLion recorded the last of the 12 jets finishing its refit in November 2023, after seven others were retired during the pandemic.

On the day of the launch, FlightGlobal reported that SIA has ruled out another A380 retrofit. The Points Guy reported that the airline has no plans to update First Class on its 777-300s or A380s.

The A380 keeps Suites that are larger than the new First Class seat. It does get Starlink Wi-Fi, which the release lists for the A380, the long-haul A350s and the A350-900ULRs.

SIA is among the airlines still flying the A380, and its 12 jets will keep their 2017 cabins.

A bigger bill and a later start

The S$2 billion figure, about US$1.57 billion by CNA’s conversion, is not a straight rise from the S$1.1 billion SIA gave in 2024. That earlier figure covered only the 41 A350 retrofits.

Chief commercial officer Lee Lik Hsin told Mainly Miles the new total covers 72 aircraft, the 41 A350s plus 31 Boeing 777-9s on order. He called it the airline’s biggest investment in cabin products to date.

The start date has slipped again. In 2024, SIA expected the first long-haul A350 back in service in the second quarter of 2026 and the first A350-900ULR in the first quarter of 2027, with the program done by the end of 2030.

The new release says only “from the second half of 2027.” According to The MileLion, the hold-up is certification: the seats are certified for the 777-9 but the aircraft is not, and the A350 version of the seats is still awaiting approval. The same site expects a retrofitted A350 to fly the new seats before the 777-9 does.

SIA itself has not said which aircraft will carry the new seats first, or on which route, and it gave no delivery date for its Boeing 777-9s.

The cabins are the centerpiece of a wider relaunch that also covers the new KrisWorld system, new menus and amenity kits, and more than S$130 million for SilverKris lounges. Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow was guest of honor at the Singapore event.