Delta often claims to have been the first airline to fly with business class suites, but that isn’t true. Qatar Airways was first, and their QSuite debuted seven years ago and remains one of the best business class products in the sky. The overall Qatar Airways business class experience is better than first class on airlines like British Airways and American.
Now they’ve unveiled Qsuite Next Gen
This represents an incremental improvement over the current QSuites products rather than something totally different.
- You’ll still see alternating forward- and rear-facing rows of seats, which is great because it allows for a group of four passengers in the center section to combine their seats into a larger space.
- This new seat opens up even more than the current product, with entertainment screens foldable to open up the space.
- Middle seats, when combined, open up to create a larger bed.
- Meanwhile, solo window seats have a fold away partition to allow couples to dine together.
Renderings look fantastic. There’s more storage, with drawers for personal items and there’s wireless device charging.
The new suite will arrive with the airline’s Boeing 777-9s, which are currently delayed and in certification. We might see them as soon as 18 months from now – alongside that aircraft’s new first class product.
This will mean more variety of business class product. As it stands not every aircraft has the current QSuites. But we know which planes will have it, and it only appears incrementally better than the current QSuite version – which is reasonable, considering that today only ANA’s The Room business class competes as a hard product.
