This is the first in a series of interviews with the movers and shakers behind herringbone seats, at a time when RGN would normally be roaming the halls of the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. What’s the most successful business class seat in recent times? With the arrival of new products for new aircraft like the A321XLR, and updated versions still arriving on newly delivered widebodies, it has to be the “reverse” herringbone. The first of these, débuting in 2008-09 on US Airways’ Airbus A330 fleet, was Cirrus, from the then Sicma, later Zodiac Aerospace, and still sold by Safran Seats. With the original Cirrus, all seats point away from the aisle. The single seats have window views whilst there is more opportunity to socialise with a travelling companion in the centre seats.