Lufthansa embraced seat manufacturer Recaro's pioneering design, purchasing 32, 000 new seats across the fleet.
Meanwhile it is forcing Messrs Brown, Darling and Reid into undignified scrambling for new seats.
Many of the new seats will come in the south-west, at present a Republican stronghold.
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In 2001, the theater was restored with new seats, a new screen and a new sound system.
"In three or four years, you'll see another carrier come out with new seats to usurp United, " he says.
Democrats are expected to capture three of the four new seats, including one covering parts of Dallas and Fort Worth.
They hope to win five or six new seats this time round, taking their total number almost into double figures.
These new seats offer premium features like heating and ventilation, massaging, four-way lumber support and can be controlled through the iPad.
MPs in safer areas, by cutting back Labour's representation in its own heartlands while helping Labour win new seats in the south-east.
In the case of these councils, the BBC will use notional results based on 2009 voting in the new seats, as the baseline.
With population growth and urbanization continuing, disenfranchisement can only increase unless new seats are created, which would require the support of a two-thirds majority in parliament.
In the Senate, the GOP should easily have won a basketful of new seats but a number of missteps by their candidates have made outcomes uncertain.
In 2010, the football stadium was expanded from 42, 000 to 55, 000, and fans used the new seats on the way to averaging over 50, 000 per game in attendance.
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Labour have used the G-word, but are privately relieved that their high-profile MPs should be able to avoid fighting each other in brutal selection contests for new seats.
Complicating the process, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may require officials to draw the House district boundaries in such a way that some of the eight new seats have a majority Hispanic population.
But during talks with Democratic Party leaders on June 20th, a senior Chinese official agreed to the party's proposal for the five new seats reserved for district councillors to be chosen by a much bigger electorate.
Although Republicans control every aspect of redistricting in the state, even some GOP lawmakers privately say that at least two of the new seats should have a majority of Hispanic residents to avoid dilution of minority voting strength.
This unwelcome applies especially to those occupying six new Republican seats in the Senate come January.
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The country is now totting up votes cast by expatriate Italians in cities such as New York and Buenos Aires for six new Senate seats.
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Many of the primary races to fill four new congressional seats, created as a result of population growth in Texas, remained undecided late Tuesday.
The fact that Republicans just pushed through a redistricting plan for the Texas House of Representatives that fell far short of the five new Hispanic seats he was demanding will also probably spark lawsuits.
The 80, 000-seat stadium, which hosted the opening and closing ceremonies and the track and field competition at the 2012 London Games, will be downsized to 54, 000 seats and reconfigured with a new roof and retractable seats.
Bottom line: Southwest's new economy class seats will allow for six additional coach seats per plane.
It would probably help Mr Kim's new party win seats in the Kyongsang region, the opposition's political stronghold.
But not even the claimants to new Security Council seats including Japan, Brazil and India can agree among themselves who, exactly, should get a place at the table.
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The irony is that it appears much easier to put in a new stage, seats and lighting than change the age-old culture of infighting and intrigue.
Robert Torricelli of New Jersey and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, while Republicans are now better suited to hold seats in New Hampshire and Tennessee.
The top two contenders are expected to be the LDP (206 seats before dissolution) and the opposition New Frontier Party (163 seats), a conservative group headed by LDP renegade Ozawa Ichiro.
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