Delta Air Lines is giving its cabin interiors a new look. Here's a look inside.

Delta Air Lines wants to improve the passenger experience even before the plane leaves the ground.

The airline, which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, said Tuesday it will embark on a “nose-to-tail” redesign of its interior cabins. The refresh includes new seating fabrics and materials, mood lighting throughout the aircraft and memory foam padding in some cabins.

The interior facelift comes as the carrier has suffered greatly from it worldwide CrowdStrike outage in July reported a 26% drop in third-quarter profit.

The update is the result of extensive research into “customers' changing expectations and lifestyles,” Delta said in its announcement, which highlighted the company's commitment to “enhancing the travel experience.” With Passenger complaints will increase sharply in 2023Even low-cost airlines like Southwest Airlines want to offer consumers something a more premium flying experience.

“As we begin our next century of flight, this refreshed cabin interior combines utility with beauty, creating an atmosphere that feels fresh, elevated and timeless while reflecting our customers’ evolving tastes and expectations,” says Mauricio Parise, vice president of customer experience design at Delta, a statement said.

Here's what Delta passengers can expect from the transformation.

Slimmer seating

Delta Comfort+ and Main Cabin passengers enjoy engineered leather seats with updated colors and red accent stripes. On widebody aircraft, Delta Comfort+ and main cabin seats have the added luxury of memory foam padding.

According to the airline, premium passengers in the Delta One cabin will find seats padded with soft, breathable wool-nylon blend fabric seats.

Despite the differences in fabrics and materials in the various seating areas, the redesign is intended to give all cabins a premium look and feel and, according to a promotional video, “make everything consistent” so that “it definitely looks like new.” .”

Improved lighting

Delta's new cabins will also feature what the company calls “enhanced lighting programs” throughout the aircraft. “Every flight is different, so we focused on creating warm, soothing and atmospheric lighting options that create an environment where customers can rest and relax or stay productive, as they wish,” said Parise.

This includes different lighting moods for different flight phases. When boarding, for example, “we focused on the 'moment of deceleration' – warm and inviting lighting that makes the cabin feel spacious and open,” says Delta.

At meals: “We offer shades that feel like a candlelit dinner – making meals more natural and inviting.”

Bedtime: “As the lights dim for sleep, we borrow from the sunset and slowly remove the blue light while introducing warm amber tones reminiscent of the glow of a sunset.”

Wake-up time: “When it’s time to wake up, the cabin slowly gets brighter, creating morning and daylight.”

Improved bathrooms

As part of the modernization, the toilets will have light walls and calming blue cabinets. According to Delta, a new smooth flooring with pops of color will provide “better cleanliness and safer traction.”

Delta said the new cabin design will debut on narrow-body Boeing 757 aircraft on domestic and short international routes later this fall. Renovated cabins on wide-body Airbus A35 aircraft will follow in 2025, with the rest of the airline's fleet to follow “in the next few years.”