If, on the other hand, you're in the unfortunate position of having to book tickets last minute and having to book into Economy Class this aircraft swap isn't going to be good news for you — with significantly fewer main Cabin Extra seats on the 787 - 9 you're likely to find it harder to snag one of the less terrible Economy
Class seats on the aircraft.
If you're booked to fly Business Class on one of these aircraft I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how much more spacious the seats feel compared to Virgin's horse boxes — I'd happily book a Business
Class seat on this aircraft.
JAL flies their Boeing 787 - 800 Dreamliner on the Vancouver — Tokyo route but, despite this being one of the newest planes around, JAL has chosen to install an older business
class seat on the aircraft serving this route.
Not exact matches
The country's largest airline said Thursday that it plans to add the new
seating class on five Boeing 777
aircraft that will join the fleet over the next year, starting this summer.
With just eight
seats on every
aircraft — fewer than most first
class cabins offered on competing airlines, our First Class cabin has an exclusive feel with a dedicated attendant providing a personal level of ser
class cabins offered
on competing airlines, our First
Class cabin has an exclusive feel with a dedicated attendant providing a personal level of ser
Class cabin has an exclusive feel with a dedicated attendant providing a personal level of service.
If an approved CRS, for which a ticket has been purchased, does not fit in a particular
seat on the
aircraft, the
aircraft operator has the responsibility to accommodate the CRS in another
seat in the same
class of service.
American Airlines has lie - flat business
class seats on all of their Airbus A330, Boeing 777, and Boeing 767
aircraft.
Korean Air has done very little to distinguish first
class from business
class on these
aircraft, and they are pretty much the exact same
seat.
If you use miles to fly Hawaii
on United Airlines, there are several
aircraft types that provide a lie - flat business
class seat, including the Boeing 777, 767, and 757.
Delta operates several
aircraft on its routes to Hawaii, but only 2
aircraft types offer lie - flat business
class seats: their Airbus A330 and their Boeing 767.
American Airlines has lie - flat business
class seats on all of their Airbus A330, Boeing 777, and Boeing 767
aircraft.
The route will be operated
on board Boeing 737 - 800
aircraft, which feature first
class seating for 16 and 141
seats in the main cabin.
Both
aircraft also feature new ergonomic economy -
class seats, and a new
on - demand entertainment system available in six...
While none of the Airbus A350s currently in service offer first -
class cabins, the airlines that use the jet have installed the latest versions of business, premium economy and economy
seats on their new
aircraft.
The 787 - 10
aircraft are configured with 337
seats across two
classes (no First
Class or Premium economy
on this
aircraft) and will operate
on Singapore Airlines flights of up to 8 hours.
Forty - nine of the
aircraft, those operated
on domestic routes, will be laid out with 20
seats in first
class, 29 in the premium - economy Economy Comfort section, and 150 in economy.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has teamed up with Toyota Boshoku Corporation, part of the Toyota Group, to develop a new economy
class seat, which the Japanese carrier will introduce
on domestic
aircraft in June 2015.
Flight: SQ7
Aircraft: Boeing 777 - 300ER Seoul (ICN) to Singapore (SIN) Depart: 12:25 AM
on Wednesday (12:15 AM actual) Arrive: 5:40 AM same day (5:28 AM actual) Duration: 6 hr 13mn
Seat: 11K Business
Class
The seven
aircraft operating
on international routes will be configured with 18
seats in first
class, 28 in premium economy, and 151 in economy.
Cathay Pacific has long used a lie - flat, reverse herringbone design that is considered one of the best business
class seats in the industry and a model for the
seats American Airlines uses
on its Boeing 777 - 300ER
aircraft.
Make sure you play around with your flight options when booking these trips as you'll have a far better Business
Class seat if you book your flight
on an American Airlines
aircraft rather than
on operated by British Airways.
It's true to say that the Business
Class seats in the Iberia A350 are new and different to the Business
Class seats found
on the airline's A330 / A340
aircraft but you'd really have to know what you're looking for to tell the difference.
Business
Class is fitted with the same Business
Class seats as found
on the Singapore Airlines 777 - 330ER
aircraft:
Not one of United's 787 - 9 Dreamliners has be retrofitted with the new Polaris Business
Class seat but, when you go to select your
seat on one of these
aircraft, look what the United.com
seat map shows:
To sum up: I wouldn't pay for the Business
Class cabin, you'd have to pay me to sit in a regular Economy
Class seat leaving Premium Economy as clearly the best option
on the
aircraft.
All three flights will be operated by SkyWest
on Embraer E175
aircraft with 12 first
class seats and 64 economy
class seats.
The 787 - 9 Dreamliner offers Economy
Class seats with a little over 17 ″ of
seat width and just 31 ″ of
seat pitch so they're about as tight as you'll find
on any mainstream long - haul
aircraft — that's not good for the distances the 787 - 9 flys.
If Avios is all you have then all is not completely lost — the Business
Class seat you'll get
on American's 777 - 300ER
aircraft (labeled 77W
on the searches) is considerably better than anything British Airways will offer you so there's some consolation there.
I have no regrets about booking the British Airways 747 First
Class cabin because it served all the purposes I booked it for — I enjoyed the experience, I now know what BA First
Class is like
on this
aircraft and Joanna and I got to fly to Las Vegas in the very front of a 747 — but I won't be hurrying to buy a First
Class seat on a British Airways 747 anytime soon.
American offers a fantastic Business
Class seat on its 777 - 300
aircraft and its Business
Class cabins are considerably less dense than what this diagram shows so United has to offer something of similar stature if it wants to compete.
The Business
Class cabin features American Airlines» latest Business
Class product (not the same as the Business
Class product
on their 777 - 300
aircraft) with 6 - across
seating (giving passengers all - aisle access passengers) and a
seat that converts into a completely flat - bed.
Delta has also confirmed that it will also introduce the new Delta One Suite
on the A350
aircraft which is set to be the first Business
Class cabin to offer
seats that fully enclose the passenger from the aisle.
The Air France Business
Class seat on the 777 - 300ER is very similar to the reverse herringbone
seats on the Cathay Pacific and Finnair A350
aircraft....
The Shell Flat Neo
seat (which still exists
on a good number of JAL routes, including some operated by new 787 Dreamliners) is an angle - flat Business
Class seat and, regardless of which
aircraft type you're in, does not offer aisle access to every passenger.
There's no extra
seat width (
on most
aircraft), no special catering options and nothing to divide MCE from the Economy
Class cabin.
Based
on the width of the
aircraft than the fact that American has squeezed in 9 - across
seating thought Main Cabin Extra and the regular Economy
Class cabin, I suspect the
seat width will be closer to 17 ″....
Since 2014 JAL has been introducing a new and vastly improved Business
Class seat on to a variety of
aircraft on select international routes.
Air France uses its refurbished 777
aircraft on the Paris and Dubai route and these come with the airline's reverse herringbone, all - aisle - access Business
Class seats (reviewed here).
Flight: SK944
Aircraft: Airbus A340 - 300 Chicago (ORD) to Copenhagen (CPH) Depart: 10:05 PM (10:02 PM actual)
on Wednesday Arrive: 1:20 PM (12:58 PM actual) next day Duration: 7 hr 56mn
Seat: 46B Economy
Class
On sale from today, 17 May, Economy Space Plus is Virgin Australia's version of United Airlines» Economy Plus and American Airlines» Main Cabin Extra in that it isn't a new cabin on the aircraft (they already have 3 of those on their 777 - 300ERs) but rather a dedicated set of seats within the Economy Class cabin that come with a few extra benefit
On sale from today, 17 May, Economy Space Plus is Virgin Australia's version of United Airlines» Economy Plus and American Airlines» Main Cabin Extra in that it isn't a new cabin
on the aircraft (they already have 3 of those on their 777 - 300ERs) but rather a dedicated set of seats within the Economy Class cabin that come with a few extra benefit
on the
aircraft (they already have 3 of those
on their 777 - 300ERs) but rather a dedicated set of seats within the Economy Class cabin that come with a few extra benefit
on their 777 - 300ERs) but rather a dedicated set of
seats within the Economy
Class cabin that come with a few extra benefits.
4 years ago Lufthansa announced a revolutionary new product (which I'm not sure any other airline has copied) when they offered first
class passengers,
on their 747 - 400
aircraft, a
seat and a bed for their trip.
The United Polaris business
class seat will first take flight in December
on Boeing 777 - 300ER
aircraft and subsequently
on Boeing 787 - 10 and Airbus A350 - 1000
aircraft, as well as
on Boeing 767 - 300 and 777 - 200 retrofits.
We already know that Cathay will be following the herd as it reconfigures its 777 - 300
aircraft with 10 - across
seating in Economy
Class — so that's the end of comfort in Cathay Pacific's Economy
Class cabin — and recent rumors have suggested that the airline would introduce «buy
on board» meals
on its short - haul flights while, at the same time, giving up
on the idea of offering «dine
on demand» in Business
Class.
if you're not booking directly into the premium cabin I would also make sure that you secure a Main Cabin Extra
seat as soon as possible (or possibly even actively avoid this
aircraft if you can't book an MCE
seat on it)-- the Economy
Class seats don't look like ones I'd like to find myself in.
When you consider that the Business
Class layout and
seats look very similar to what Etihad has
on its 777 - 300ER
aircraft and that even the Economy
Class seats come with foot rests, USB sockets, power outlets and large screen entertainment systems, then this doesn't look like an out - of - date airline at all.
If the Business
Class cabin I'm thinking of booking has one
seat on either side of the
aircraft I know that I'm almost certainly looking at a newer product that should be pretty good... like this one offered by Air France
on its 777's:
While not as good a
seat as the American Airlines 777 - 300ER product the Iberia Business
Class seat is a big improvement
on past Iberia offerings and is also considerably better than what British Airways (Iberia's sister airline) offers
on their
aircraft... by quite a distance.
It's also worth noting that Virgin Australia offers 32 ″ of leg room and 18.5 ″ of
seat width in its 777 - 300ER Economy
Class cabin compared to Etihad's 31 ″ of leg room and 17.5 ″ of
seat width
on both its
aircraft on this route.
Qantas is working
on the new Business
Class seats for the Dreamliner with the Belfast division of Thompson who supplied the highly praised «Business Suite» for the Qantas A330
aircraft:
Back in March, Cathay Pacific announced that it would debut a new business
class seat, in February 2016,
on their new flagship A350
aircraft and would follow this up with a refresh of the business
class seats on their A330 and 777
aircraft (but probably not until 2017/18)