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Overhead view of Cathay Pacific Cirrus business class seat.

A retrospective on Cathay Pacific’s Cirrus business class

2024 looks set to be a bumper year for a new generation of business class cabins arriving onto aircraft, so it’s perhaps fitting that your a... Continue Reading

Looking above the Cathay Pacific 777-300ER Cirrus seat in business class. The seat is all grey with a white pillow and off-white thermoplastics.

Cathay’s revamped business soft product is as strong as OG Cirrus

Cathay Pacific’s 777-300ER implementation of the Cirrus seat (originally produced by Sicma, then Zodiac, now Safran) is the reference busine... Continue Reading

Business Class cabin on Air France's Boeing 777-300ER. The cabin is a 1-2-1 configuration of blue seats with white thermoplastic shells.

Expanding on Safran’s 3F concept for the new Air France suite

With Air France’s new outward-facing herringbone Safran Cirrus doored mini-suites now flying, what does the product look like in the images ... Continue Reading

Air France Boeing 777-300ER business class seat. The seat has a pillow, blanket and hanger sitting on it. The seat is dark blue with grey thermoplastics wrapping around it.

Passengers not left wanting aboard Air France 777-300ER

After experiencing SkyTeam alliance member Delta Air Lines’ flagship product from New York JFK to Paris, and traversing France aboard ... Continue Reading

This image is of an Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 arriving into Perth's international airport after a long flight from Auckland airport. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American long-haul, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Its variants seat 242 to 335 passengers in typical three-class seating configurations. It is the first airliner with an airframe constructed primarily of composite materials. The 787 was designed to be 20% more fuel-efficient than the Boeing 767, which it was intended to replace. The 787 Dreamliner's distinguishing features include mostly electrical flight systems, raked wingtips, and noise-reducing chevrons on its engine nacelles.

New inward-facing herringbone and business-plus for Air NZ 787

Air New Zealand’s next Business Premier seat for its Boeing 787-9 is an inward-facing herringbone, and includes a front row business-plus pr... Continue Reading

Finnair business class seat is pictured here with a woman in a brown outfit, sleeping on the flatbed.

The 14 different kinds of business class seats in 2022

As aviation in much of the world begins to accelerate out of the pandemic effects of COVID-19, the business class seating landscape has chan... Continue Reading

Beautiful scenic view of sunset through the aircraft window. Part of the VUE seat shell is in view, showing that passengers are able to clearly see out the window. A hint of the VUE seat is shown, demonstrating that passengers can clearly see out the window in this outward facing configuration

Safran Seats to debut VUE reverse herringbone for narrowbodies

In 2019, Safran Seats began quietly developing a premium, international-style business class seat for long-haul, single-aisle twinjets. As a... Continue Reading

Cathay A321neo sets new shorthaul narrowbody standard

With recliner-plus seats in business, fully-featured HAECO Vector seats in economy, Panasonic NEXT 4K screens throughout, and Bluetooth audi... Continue Reading

Curtains serve as a class divider on board this narrowbody aircraft

The new “comfort canyon”: the narrowbody class barrier

With the rise of longhaul single-aisle aircraft, an old question becomes new again: how can airlines span the increasingly wide “comfort can... Continue Reading

Cirrus NG rendering on a white backdrop.

Inside herringbones: a decade and a half of Cirrus

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 roami... Continue Reading

Two large IFE screens in front of two premium suites

Reflections on a new generation of single-aisle flatbeds

A second generation of single-aisle fully flat beds — offering direct aisle access — is ready and willing to improve the passenger experienc... Continue Reading

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In Conversation Transcribed: Business class with Virgin and BA

John Walton: Hello and welcome to Runway Girl Network, In Conversation, a deep dive into aviation and the passenger experience. I’m RG... Continue Reading

cabin interior of an business class section in an aircraft

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In Conversation: Business class with Virgin and BA

Joanna Bailey and Thomas Boon from Simple Flying join aviation journalist and interiors expert John Walton to face off about the newest busi... Continue Reading

Business class seat on the show floor for display

Smaller seatmakers look to meet narrowbody seat needs of airframers

As the passenger experience stands as 2019 draws to a close, the overwhelming majority of narrowbody airliners, whether from the Airbus A320... Continue Reading

Virgin Atlantic a350 parked at the gate o an airport at night.

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Virgin Atlantic’s new A350 business class: impressive beyond flaws

During a sort of #PaxEx duel between the UK’s two largest airlines, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, each is launching a new business cl... Continue Reading