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Dallas-Fort Worth is getting bigger, should it?

May 23, 2019 By Trevor 2 Comments





News out of Dallas-Fort Worth that the airport has decided to build Terminal F, which will be 24 new gates for American Airlines. But should American continue to grow DFW, and should DFW, one of the worlds largest airports by acreage and runways, be grown bigger?

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport – Already quite big

As the worlds 3rd largest airport by size, at 6,963 Hectares, the worlds 15th busiest by passengers (69.1M), Its also the worlds 4th largest in terms of operations, and has 7 total runways. Chicago O’Hare has 8 runways, Beijing has a bunch of runways as well. I remember even back when I was in grad school, we had the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of DFW at the time speak to one of my classes, noted that they could have 4 planes take off or land simultaneously, which seems like a lot to manage. 

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport’s new Terminal F

Seth over at Wandering Aramean has a longer post on the details of Terminal F, but the long and the short of it is:

  • New Terminal (that one if you’ve flown through DFW, is where you now pass around an awkward looking parking lot).
  • 24 New Gates
  • 6 years to build and open.
  • Predominately benefiting American Airlines (who has roughly 80% of passengers and/or flights into and out of DFW)
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Terminal F

DFW to add Terminal F – Courtesy of DFW and American Airlines

Wrapping Up

Bottom line, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is a big airport. Should it get bigger? Should an American Airlines fortress hub get larger? I would argue, no. 

What do you think?

Filed Under: #Avgeek Tagged With: Dallas-Fort Worth Airport

Southwest Goes to Hawaii – But don’t get too excited East Coasters!

March 4, 2019 By Trevor Leave a Comment

Yes, I’m tagging on to the biggest Southwest news of the day, perhaps even the week. Southwest goes to Hawaii and flights are now bookable! But, don’t get too excited unless you’re pretty close to Oakland or San Jose; Southwest’s first two departure points to Hawaii. 

Southwest Goes to Hawaii

Southwest celebrating a successful test flight to Hawaii — Credit: Southwest Airlines

Southwest Goes to Hawaii

Southwest will fly initially from two airports, Oakland, and San Jose. Bay Area – you win! 

First, here are the start dates – Oakland:

Southwest Goes to Hawaii

Southwest’s Start Dates form Oakland.

and San Jose:

Southwest Goes to Hawaii

Southwest Start Dates from San Jose.

Don’t get too excited East Coasters!

With the flights to Hawaii starting on 17 March, you’re probably thinking that’s a good time to start — well, unfortunately its only one flight, and for the first few days, its sold out. By the end of March, Southwest goes to 2 flights returning, however, that’s where we start to see things that may not work out so well for East Coasters.

Southwest goes to Hawaii

Southwest Goes to Hawaii — Schedule at the end of March to / from Honolulu.

Now lets look at Oakland to Honolulu in May:

Southwest goes to Hawaii

Southwest goes to Hawaii – Oakland to Honolulu in May.

Perhaps you’re starting to see the troubling trend?

Before I spell it out, let me offer a simple flight query from an East Coast Hub — Baltimore-Washington International Airport: 

Southwest goes to Hawaii

Southwest goes to Hawaii; but doesn’t come back to Baltimore.

The Problem

Now, you’re probably thinking to yourself – wait, we already saw that flights are actually being flown out on 22 May and back on 29 May, because we just saw it with the Oakland-Honolulu search; but now Southwest is showing significantly fewer options if we want to fly from Baltimore to Honolulu.

Why might that be? For starters, going West, you can only make the one flight, because the other two leave in the 8am hour, and there’s no Southwest flight that would make it in, in time.

For the way home, we’re troubled by the fact that Southwest doesn’t fly redeyes, so they come up with no options back, since its a day flight out of Honolulu. So far as I can find, Southwest does not permit stopovers — and an overnight connection could be construed as a stopover.

So what this means is, you need to book 2 separate itineraries to get home from Hawaii, assuming you fly Southwest.

What are your thoughts? Does this turn you off of the hype around new around Southwest’s new flights to Hawaii?

Filed Under: #Avgeek, Travel Tagged With: Hawaii, Southwest Airlines

Alaska’s latest Livery is Higher, Further, and Faster!

February 7, 2019 By Trevor Leave a Comment

In the latest Marvel-Airline tie-up, Alaska Airlines has hopped onboard, and let me just say, Alaska’s latest livery is higher, further, and faster in honor of the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. I’ll add that the livery even has the split scimitar winglets, a fitting armament for Captain Marvel.

Alaska’s latest livery is higher, further, and faster

Alaska's latest Livery is Higher, Further, and Faster

Alaska Airlines’ Captain Marvel Livery

Sporting Marvel Studio’s Captain Marvel, the livery looks pretty sweet. Check out Alaska’s video of how the livery came to being:

There’s a lot banked on this next-to-be released Marvel movie for fans, as it sets the stage for the upcoming Marvel Avengers: End Game (the trailer is below, because, its just gotta be included!)

And don’t think that Alaska is the first airline to sign on to the Avengers. American did it last year for Avengers: Infinity War alongside Stand Up to Cancer.

and this is only the latest in a long line of awesome liveries that airliners have worn. To name a few:

  • ANA’s Hawaii A380 Honu Livery
  • Qantas Flying Art Series
  • ANA’s Star Wars R2-D2
  • ANA’s Star Wars C3PO
  • and don’t forget EVA’s Hello Kitty liveries!

What do you think of Alaska Airlines’ new livery? Are you looking forward to the movie–and more partnerships?

 

Filed Under: #Avgeek

The 10 Longest Flights – late 2018 Edition

October 22, 2018 By Trevor 7 Comments

Perhaps this is more #avgeek than anything, but I’m always curious about interesting flights and “lines” (one of the basis of the Dots, Lines, and Destinations podcast). Perhaps the most common group of interesting “lines” is the 10 longest flights. Over the past few years, these have changed a bunch! I wrote about Emirates taking over the longest flight in 2015 flying from Dubai to Panama City, Panama. Even though that still hasn’t taken fruition, despite the occasional revisit. The fact remains, airlines see the longest flight as a badge of honor.

Singapore Airlines SQ 22 / 21 tops the list for the 10 longest flights

I had written some years ago that Airbus’ A350-900ULR made the previous world’s longest flight once again possible; previously it was operated by an A340-500, and now Singapore has returned to take the throne of the longest flight! That flight started (or restarted) on 11 October, and none-other-than JT Genter of The Points Guy was on it! 

The folks at GCMap even showed both SQ22’s route, and SQ21’s route. 

10 Longest Flights, SQ21, SQ22, GCMap

Number 2: Qatar’s Doha to Auckland, New Zealand

Qatar Airways launched their attempt at the longest commercial flight in 2017, in the brief period where Singapore didn’t operate their flight from Singapore to Newark, NJ. Travel Update has a great flight report. I’ve flown the same style seat as is on the 777-200LR, though my experience was on a 777-300ER. That flight is just over 500 miles shorter than Singapore’s flight, at 9,032 nautical miles:

10 longest flights, Qatar, QR, DOH-AKL

Number 3: Qantas’ Perth to London

Our friend JT Genter also flew the now 3rd longest flight, Qantas’ Perth to London flight, operated by a Boeing 787-9. 

10 longest flights, QF, Qantas, PER-LHR

Of note, this Qantas 787-9 has similar business class seats to those found on their Airbus A330, which I found to be very comfortable.

Number 4: Emirates Dubai to Auckland, New Zealand

Just in case you’re starting to get the feeling like New Zealand is kind’ve far… It actually pretty much is, at least from “middle earth.” Emirates operates the 4th largest flight, which also marks the first time an A380-800 enters the 10 longest flights list. I’ve written a bunch about flying in Emirates A380 First Class, and finally experienced Business Class on the A380. 

10 longest flights

Number 5: United Airlines Los Angeles to Singapore

Somehow, United beat Singapore at relaunching the LAX to Singapore flight. Note that Singapore had previously announced that they would be relaunching the LAX-SIN flight. If I were you, I’d wait for the Singapore Airlines operated flight, before flying this route, United’s 2-2-2 configuration is a bit, 2000’s.

10 longest flights - LAX-SIN

Number 6: United Airlines Houston to Sydney

I have to be honest, this wasn’t even a flight that was on my radar! I’m not sure I’d want to fly on United’s 787-9 with their 2-2-2 configuration business class, but it is certainly an option if you’re looking to go to Sydney, and I’d imagine not a lot of folks are thinking of this particular route.

10 longest flights

Number 7: Qantas Dallas-Fort Worth to Sydney

This is one I’m particularly excited about! I have only flown on the Qantas A380 on the old Kangaroo route from Singapore to London. My wife and I will actually be flying on this particular route later this year, as we do what will be our third or fourth annual visit to Australia. We’re also starting to get into super close distances, as you’ll notice in the below graphic:

10 longest flights

Number 8: Singapore Airlines and United Airlines San Francisco to Singapore

This route has an interesting history. United somehow beat Singapore in starting their San Francisco to Singapore route. That said, if I had the choice, I’d probably be leaning toward the Singapore bird, because the United bird is, shall we say, a decade behind on the business class passenger experience. Just look at the seat map!

United 787-9 Seatmap via SeatGuru

United 787-9 Seatmap via SeatGuru

That said, the flight is rather similar to the one from Los Angeles, though a bit shorter:

Number 9: Delta Airlines Atlanta to Johannesburg 

This is probably #1 on my list from a cool factor. You’ll notice that nearly every super-long haul is going to Asia or Oceania. Oceania makes sense, its super far. But, don’t forget, South Africa is pretty far too! Delta’s Atlanta to Johannesburg is definitely one that I’d love to fly some day (ok, who am I kidding, I’d love to fly a bunch of these long hauls).

10 longest flights

Number 10: Etihad Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles

Pretty much anywhere from the Middle East to Los Angeles is pretty far, and all in the same group. Abu Dhabi just happens to be the furthest. Ironically, I’d offer that Doha, Qatar to Los Angeles is actually longer, given the QatarBlockade requires them to fly a non-standard routing. But here’s Etihad’s gcmap:

Bonus: Middle East to Los Angeles

All of the “Big” Middle East Airlines fly to Los Angeles. Even Saudia, makes that super long haul. As I mentioned above, I’d imagine the actual flight time is longest for Doha, considering the current issues that Qatar is facing. I know some have flown these super long haul flights, but I’m not sure that I’d say any of these are on my list.

10 longest flights

Conclusion

If you’re an #Avgeek, then its a pretty good guess that some or many or even all of these super long haul flights are on your list. I find it very interesting that a most are operated by 2 engine aircraft – a feat that 10 or 20 years ago would have been unfathomable. 

So which of these super long hauls are on your aspirational list to fly?

Filed Under: #Avgeek, Travel Tagged With: #avgeek, Longest Flights, Super Long Haul

Watch the Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday.

July 10, 2018 By Trevor Leave a Comment

10 July 1918, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force came into existence. And you may ask, how did the Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday? With one of the most spectacular flyover parade in memory.

I’m sure you’re imagining a simple flyover like the Superbowl (like this perhaps):

Cut to 1:05 or so (and yes, I realize that is Notre Dame vs Navy rather than the pro’s!)

No, no, no, this was far more spectacular! 

Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday

This was a pretty big event in London, I dare say it might have even been bigger than the World Cup games thus far. The event had the Queen in attendance, and included more aircraft than I could identify. Some old, some new, some trainers, some cargo, some fighters, including helicopters as well! In total there were 100 aircraft.  Perhaps most spectacular was what I think were the Typhoons flying in “100” formation.

Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday

A picture of what I think were Typhoons flying in formation. Photo from @Conor_Chaplin

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund put together a nice time lapsed video highlighting how big a deal this was in England. Its a quick well done video worth a watch:

If you’d like to watch a slightly longer one with BBC commentary, then this may be more to your liking, it certainly includes more #avgeek shots.

The Royal Air Force went all in!

Surprisingly, I only happened to notice this in the wee hours of the morning on Twitter, but when I looked closer, it was completely apparent to me that the UK went all in. There’s an entire page and an app to follow the Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday! They even put out this rather fantastic graphic identifying all of the aircraft that they had planned for the event!

Royal Air Force mark their 100th birthday

All the aircraft for the Royal Air Force’s 100th birthday. (Courtesy of the RAF).

Bottom Line

This was perhaps an air parade that won’t be topped in our life times. It was truly phenomenal to watch fixed wing, rotor, jet, and propeller aircraft in the sky over London. It was also a great reminder of how impressive and far the world’s aviation experience has come in the last 100 years. The RAF has aircraft from the US, UK, and Europe, which does make it an impressive variety.

What was your favorite aircraft? 

Filed Under: #Avgeek Tagged With: #avgeek, Military Aircraft, RAF, Royal Air Force

Qantas Airlines Latest Flying Art Series Livery

February 16, 2018 By Trevor Leave a Comment

Like any Aviation Geek (#AvGeek), I love a great livery, and Qantas Airlines latest flying art series does not disappoint! It is in acknowledgement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Australia.

Qantas Latest Flying Art Series Livery

Qantas Dreamliner Emily Kame Kngwarreye – courtesy of Qantas

Qantas Airlines Latest Flying Art Series Livery

The Dreamliner Emily Kame Kngwarreye is the 5th aircraft in Qantas Airlines Flying Art series. The series has been previously adorned 737’s and 747’s, so its nice to see Qantas rolling out their flagship 787 in a special livery.

Qantas released a nice video introducing the new Dreamliner

Wrapping Up

I think a lot of folks enjoy unique liveries. We’ve seen some pretty cool Star Wars ones from ANA for example. But I think when the livery also highlights values or heritage of a particular country or destination, its more meaningful, like the Flying Honu livery ANA announced. Qantas’ focus on aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is particularly remarkable, not just in the beauty of the liveries, but also in the story that they tell.

Filed Under: #Avgeek Tagged With: aircraft liveries, Qantas

Qatar Airways QSuite flying not just to LHR, CDG, and JFK!

January 4, 2018 By Trevor 3 Comments

Ever since Qatar Airways QSuite was announced I’ve been trying to roll it into a trip so I could try out what is touted as the most luxurious business class product in the sky. 

In a rather spectacular surprise, I got to fly QSuites (review forthcoming) on a flight I never expected it on. My wife and I were set to fly from Colombo, Sri Lanka to Doha, Qatar, as we continued our journey home. At check-in, I asked nicely if we might be able to get window seats, knowing that the 777-300ER seatmap was 2-2-2.

QR 77W 2-2-2 Seatmap

QR 77W 2-2-2 Seatmap

Except that he was saying things that didn’t make sense – saying we could sit on opposite sides of the aisle from each other – 1A and 1E. I asked a clarifying question and he kindly shared his screen.

Qatar Airways Qsuites

I dug a little deeper on this one once we got into the lounge, and found that we were flying on tail number A7-BEN, by popping the flight number into Flightradar24. 

QR665 over the past few days courtesy of Flightradar24.com

QR665 over the past few days courtesy of Flightradar24.com

I could then see that on 4 January, A7-BEN was operating our flight. Logically, I wanted to know where else this plane has been:

Flights operated by A7-BEN courtesy of Flightradar24

Flights operated by A7-BEN courtesy of Flightradar24

QR7 was–I think–the first flight announced to be operated by Qatar Airways QSuites, so that was a pretty big corroborating factor. Ultimately it was in fact a QSuites configured 777-300ER.

Qatar Airways Qsuites

Other Qatar Airways QSuites Aircraft

I don’t know for a fact how many other Qatar Airways aircraft are configured with QSuites at the moment, but I would make reasonable guesses that the following flights are operated by QSuites. Interestingly enough, some of these aircraft have visited a bunch of other cities recently, including Kuwait City, Mumbai, even Karachi!

(Note, each aircraft tail number has a hyperlink to Flightradar24 so you can see where its operating now).

  • A7-BEK
  • A7-BEL
  • A7-BED
  • A7-BEN
  • A7-BEM

Conclusion – Qatar Airways QSuite flying not just to LHR, CDG, and JFK!

Ultimately, it was more an academic activity since I couldn’t really change anything, however, I think the above steps are helpful if you’re trying to chase a particular product or aircraft. This same strategy could also be used to chase Emirates’ new First Class on the 777-300ER.

Qatar Airways Qsuites

Filed Under: #Avgeek, Travel Tagged With: Qatar Airways, QSuites

Munich Airport’s L Gates – Not ready for prime time!

October 2, 2017 By Trevor 5 Comments

This past week my wife and I had the opportunity to travel to Munich, Germany for Oktoberfest. I’ll have posts on that soon(ish), but I really wanted to get this brief post out soonest, since I know Lufthansa is putting a bigger focus on their Munich hub by launching A380 Flights. I will just say – Munich Airport’s L Gates are not ready for prime time, and that’s where I think most of the growth will be.

30 minutes Check-in to train

For starters, if you are flying to the US from Munich via Lufthansa, you go to Terminal 2. Checking in for me at least took a little longer, but I expected this with Oktoberfest still going strong. What I didn’t expect, was that even in the Business Class security screening line–and yes there is one that specifically calls out business class passengers– it took us roughly 25 minutes to get through. Part of it is that the millimeter wave technology they are using seem to be slower, and take up a ton more space, so you get less throughput. The other side was I made a bad choice in that we had a new security screener. 

Arriving at Munich Airport’s L Gates

Once you get through normal security, you still have to take a train to get to the L Gates. There you go through immigrations officially exiting Germany. Needless to say, you need to pack some extra patience.

Munich Airport's L Terminal

There’s still a bunch of construction, as you can see, which limits the amount of immigration booths they can open–though in full disclosure, they had less than half open when we first arrived. Overall, the situation was less than stellar.

A final point about Munich Airport’s L Gates

A couple of week ago, American Express announced that they had worked out an arrangement with Lufthansa for American Express Platinum and Centurion card holders to gain access to their lounges in Munich. This arrangement meant that American Express Platinum holders could gain entry into the Lufthansa Senators lounges, and Centurion card holders could gain entry into the Lufthansa First Class lounges.

Lufthansa has a Business, Senators and First Class lounge in Munich Airport’s L Gates. We obviously didn’t have access to the First Class lounge, but opted to gain entry into the Senator’s lounge, really, just because we wanted to test the American Express Platinum access. Unfortunately, it took 5+ minutes for the person at the front desk to figure out how to provide us access to the lounge. It even took going to a colleague within the lounge to figure out the necessary codes to enter in the computer. I’m not even sure I understand why it took all the effort.

A final note is that there is an additional screening area, that looks like a “lite” version of the US Pre-clearance area of Dublin or Abu Dhabi airports. The gates for US bound flights are segregated with a separate security screening area. I wonder whether Munich may be trying to get on the US Pre-Clearance list.

Wrapping Up

Overall, I was rather unimpressed departing Munich Airport’s L Gates. I totally get that Oktoberfest is a rather busy time of year for them, but as the photo above demonstrates, they were rather unprepared. I suppose I would understand that, if such a busy time of the year were a surprise, but, alas, Oktoberfest is on the calendar years in advance. Overall, I’d advise against choosing Munich as your point of departure from Europe back to the United States. I realize that it may be new and exciting, as Lufthansa begins flying A380’s from Munich, but it may be a lot more pain than its worth.

Filed Under: #Avgeek, Travel Tagged With: Lufthansa, Munich

Celebrating Star Wars Day AvGeek Style

May 4, 2017 By Trevor 1 Comment

There are only so many days of the year that you can have fun combining two awesome interests. Celebrating Star Wars Day AvGeek Style is one of those such days! Below is a round-up of some of the entertaining attempts at celebrating May the Fourth from across the Aviation Industry:

Celebrating Star Wars Day

All Nippon Airways shared a few shots of their awesome Star Wars Liveries, including their more recent C-3PO Livery:

"May the 4th Be With You" C-3PO ANA jet has just launched as 4th STAR WARS wrapped plane! Happy Star Wars Day #StarWarsDay #Starwars pic.twitter.com/Uo36acRnTo

— All Nippon Airways (@FlyANA_official) May 4, 2017

Aviation Commons, while not an airline or airport did share a nice menagerie of photos which I suspect is from one of the inaugurals of the R2-D2 787; so we’ll include it because its just plane cool:

Happy #StarWarsDay! #MayThe4thBeWithYou! https://t.co/UDHWd1tHao @BrusselsAirport CC-BY-SA #avgeek @FlyANA_official pic.twitter.com/z8IQpbaRo4

— Aviation Commons (@aviationcommons) May 4, 2016

British Airways went the video route:

This #StarWarsDay, #MayTheFourthBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/jq3kER7Aup

— British Airways (@British_Airways) May 4, 2017

Others attempted cameos on other planets, like Qatar Airways, which, may be more familiar with Tatooine than most:

Make the jump to Hyperspace and discover places far, far away when you fly with us this #StarWarsDay and beyond. #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/5gxnGZIqbP

— Qatar Airways (@qatarairways) May 4, 2017

While Air France regrettably had another service cancellation — luckily, this time it wasn’t due to a strike:

Our service to the Death Star has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. #StarWarsDay #MayTheFourthBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/0jVUv2QScc

— Air France UK (@AirFranceUK) May 4, 2017

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport had a special visitor that I’m sure was entertaining for nearby planespotters:

We have a new arrival from Tatooine.#MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/U3apbj4T1f

— DFW Airport (@DFWAirport) May 4, 2017

Although I don’t think that is even close to what Denver International Airport:

Come celebrate #StarWarsDay in the center of the terminal at 10 a.m. today! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/LezWrM6t4G

— Denver Int'l Airport (@DENAirport) May 4, 2017

It was so much so that one tweet just isn’t enough:

#StarWarsDay #MayTheFourthBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/c06721ZwRc

— Denver Int'l Airport (@DENAirport) May 4, 2017

Of course, the FAA had to get involved too:

It was a very long day for the only FAA accident investigator on Jakku. https://t.co/iUqspznrHm #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/aodGmR0CBU

— The FAA (@FAANews) May 4, 2017

And then some were less imaginative, like American Airlines, who’s twitter team is great, but, unfortunately the marketing team may be a bit behind:

We think she could make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.#MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDayhttps://t.co/6AMsQtKkdR

— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) May 4, 2016

Of course, if you thought that was a “who could try less hard” well, Delta Airlines may have beat them:

If only podracers had access to Delta TechOps… #MaytheFourth pic.twitter.com/vGpX5g7lFV

— Delta (@Delta) May 4, 2017

But fear not–it could lead to the Dark Side after all–Southwest Airlines redeemed the US Legacies:

Using the Force to bring in a @SouthwestAir jet! #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou #KC @rebellegion 70th Explorers Garrison. @501stLegion pic.twitter.com/JyarnsfDsO

— Kansas City Airport (@KCIAirport) May 4, 2017

and finally, Alaska Airlines gave a handful of passengers the co-pilot that they’ve always wanted:

And now an announcement from your co-pilot Chewie: RWRAWWGGWR! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #LetTheWookieeWin pic.twitter.com/y5il5aOyRM

— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) May 4, 2017

What was your favorite Star Wars Day tweet?

Filed Under: #Avgeek Tagged With: May The Fourth Be With You, Star Wars Day

What is the Worlds Best Business Class?

April 25, 2017 By Trevor 9 Comments

Read

ing a post yesterday evening, something struck me. Lucky made the assertion that Qatar Airways’ Business Class was already the worlds best business class. This even before you factor in their new Qsuites. It occurred to me that I’ve been flying a bunch of business class lately, and Qatar wasn’t the top of the list for me.

Qatar Airways Business Class

While I haven’t flown on Qatar’s new A350, or A380, I have flown a bunch on their 777-300ERs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of Qatar Airways, after all, they really do treat their business class passengers well. Just look at the amenities:

best business class, qatar

It is also one of the few business class products that include a mattress pad:

Qatar Bed

While I don’t have photos of it, I have flown the 787 with the new B/E Aerospace Super Diamond seat. Its a great seat. The In Flight Entertainment (IFE) is also very good.

And the ground service isn’t bad, with pretty nice lounges. 

But, I’m still not convinced that Qatar’s the best business class.

Cathay Pacific Business Class

I’ve flown Cathay Pacific in business class on both the 777-300ER longhaul and regional business on the A330. 

Cathay Pacific’s food is wonderful, the IFE is above average — in fact, its how I keep up with Game of Thrones. 

I also enjoy the lounges, including The Wing in Hong Kong; although in all fairness, my experiences with Cathay Pacific has primarily been the First Class lounges (which I gain entry via my Executive Platinum status). You can’t beat a champagne lounge after all!

The Best Business Class – EVA Air

While it wasn’t the Hello Kitty airplane, I flew EVA Air from Houston to Taipei, a 14+ hour flight. Onboard the experience was phenomenal. 

The Seat is great; its nearly as good as the Cathay Pacific Seat.

Weekend in Taipei

Eva Air 777-300ER Business Class Seat.

There is of course the pajamas, First Class caliber champagne and Rimowa Amenity Kit:

The service was spectacular. The flight attendants were responsive with a touche of proactiveness, though not overbearing as some can be. I was impressed that when I requested my steak after I had a snooze, there was no problem, and the steak was still nicely prepared.

Eva Air 77W 777-300ER

The bedding by the way is nice. The duvet was one of the best I’ve had in the air.

EVA Air 777-300ER, 77W

The IFE was more than sufficient for multiple 14 hour flights, and the headphones were great.

Overall, I think EVA Air is truly the best business class.

Who do you think has the Best Business Class?

Filed Under: #Avgeek, Airline Programs, Travel

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