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It costs passengers a bundle to fly this class, but it also costs airlines a fortune to make this class worth flying. These ratings reflect whether all that money is put to good use.
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After trying to find the World’s Best Business Class cabins, we can honestly declare that we are exhausted and in need of a long flight to a pretty island somewhere—in a fully-flat bed. However, we’ll settle for sharing the fruits of our labor with you.
All business classes have dramatically improved in the last 20 years. In fact, yesterday’s First Class cabins would like to formally apologize for their extreme inadequacy. We have trouble imagining how airlines will continue to leap-frog past this product, but surely the industry will come up with something. It always does.
These high standards made Business Class a bear to rate.
You can blame British Airways for making Business Class a complicated luxury. BA introduced the whole idea of sleeping comfortably on a flat-bed in Business Class back in 2000, in response to a series of volleys between BA and Virgin Atlantic to best each other's products that started back to the