Private business class suites with sliding doors which become double beds, a restaurant-grade à la carte menu featuring ‘dine on demand’ meals, Taittinger and Gosset Champagne… there’s no doubt that Qatar Airways has elevated the business class experience of new heights of luxury.

And soon the Gulf airline will add even more lustre to its five-star crown by serving caviar in business class.

Those tiny pearls of salty roe are a delicacy more often associated with first class – but the same was once said for lie-flat beds, private suites, over-sized video screens and most other attributes which have steadily trickled down into the business class cabin.

Now it’s time for caviar, that quintessential first class indulgence, to step to the other side of the curtain.

After a series of teasing posts on social media, Qatar Airways looks to be lining up a business class ‘caviar service’.

Travellers can expect this to be paired with generously-proportioned slices of silky Balik-style smoked salmon plus accompaniments of creme fraiche, finely-chopped chives, crumbled hard-boiled eggs and a lemon wedge.

Qatar Airways already serves caviar in the first class suites of its A380 superjumbo, so it’s no stretch to bring this into business class.

And given the scale at which airlines exercise their purchasing power, this could make Qatar Airways the world’s largest airline customer for some high-quality caviar providore.

What’s not yet known is if Qatar Airways’ business class caviar service will be a short-lived promotion or become a fixture of the inflight menu.

As previously reported, Qatar Airways will roll out a refined ‘Qsuite Next Gen’ business class on board its new Boeing 777-9 jets – which the airline says are due in late 2025 – with a new first class suite to follow on 777-9s assigned to premium routes to Europe, the US and Asia.