A few older regional and LCC configurations retain them, but few if any are being newly installed.įully flat seats without direct aisle access for every passenger are at this point mainly found on older aircraft, as well as new longhaul or premium narrowbody services.
The business class standard in the 2000s, flat beds that don’t offer direct aisle access for every passenger are by and large now found on shorthaul business class, budget or leisure carriers, and other airlines that don’t or can’t lay claim to being at the forefront of the passenger experience.Īngled lie flat seats, where the seat reclines to a mostly flat surface but is not parallel to the floor, have mostly disappeared. Image: Cathay PacificĬradle sleeper seats, meanwhile, are on the way out almost everywhere, but where they remain they offer more space than recliners, with greater pitch, more recline and a legrest to create a kind of La-Z-Boy effect. On some airlines, these remain the same model as is found throughout the entire rest of what’s usually a Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 family aircraft.Ĭollins’ Air Rest is nipping at the heels of flatbed business in terms of regional comfort.
Most, but not all, airlines offer a few inches of extra pitch compared with economy. They’re regular economy seats at the front of the plane, with the middle seat of three or the neighbour seat of two blocked off. There are five principal types of business class seat that don’t go flat, two of which use regular economy seats and three of which are larger, recliner-style products.Įurobusiness seats are the norm within, as the name would suggest, Europe.
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The new longhaul narrowbody revolution, too, is bringing new products to bear, so to summarise and categorise the industry’s products, RGN has identified a full 14 different kinds of business class seats. As aviation in much of the world begins to accelerate out of the pandemic effects of COVID-19, the business class seating landscape has changed substantially, with new products released since 2019 now becoming dominant.
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