Midwest Airlines to Offer Choice of Seating Classes

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Midwest Air Group Inc (AMEX: MEH) has announced plans to introduce two seating classes on Midwest Airlines flights.

The airline currently offers Signature Service on Boeing 717 flights, with two-across, wide leather seats, and Saver Service on longer-distance MD-80 flights to mostly leisure destinations, with two-by-three seating and low fares.

From autumn this year Midwest will offer the choice of Signature and Saver seating on flights operated with its MD-80 aircraft, and this will be rolled out to the Boeing 717 fleet in mid-2008.

The MD-80 aircraft will be fitted out with 12 Signature seats and 132 Saver seats, while the Boeing 717 aircraft will have 40 Signature seats and 59 Saver seats.

AirTran Airways Inc, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings Inc (NYSE: AAI), which has made a hostile takeover bid for Midwest, claimed that Midwest's plan to reconfigure the seating on its aircraft is "a replica of the AirTran model".

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