A bit over a week ago I wrote about how FlyDubai introduced a new business class product, which caught many of us off guard. The airline took delivery of their first of 76 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, and that plane just happens to have new fully flat business class seats that look great. There…
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The cabin looks really great, especially for a 737!
But I'd end up stuck with flyDubai OPEN reward points that would be hard for me to use again.
@BenjaminJTravel - book on the Emirates marketed codeshares instead and earn marginally better Skywards Miles 🙂
A flat bed with no direct aisle access? Why would we welcome that in a brand-new product?
The nice Paul - Because no airline has direct aisle access for all business class seats in a narrowbody aircraft as of today?
@the nice paul - Deo has a point, but also because its a low cost carrier... so what more could you expect?
flydubai, legally Dubai Aviation Corporation, is a government-owned low-cost airline with its head office and flight operations in Terminal 2 of Dubai International Airport. Source - Wikipedia
I think The nice Paul is being sarcastic. (because Lucky loves direct aisle access in business class)
Actually American air on the A321T does have direct aisle access first class in a 1-1 config in the revese Herringbone seats if I recall
@ Deo and @ Rob
But, but, but... this is a narrow-bodied aircraft that is specifically designed for LONG HAUL flights.
I suppose if you want to argue that narrow-bodied aircraft should always, as a matter of policy, have a shittier hard product, then I would argue that narrow-bodied aircraft would always be unsuitable for long haul flights.
It doesn't have to be this way.
What I'd suggest is that a consistent way of looking at appropriate hard product minimum standards for longhaul might be a better approach than adjusting your standards based on the, er, width of the fuselage. If we took that approach, we could argue that, say, the Dreamliner really should have a worse hard product than an A350, and that's absolutely ok because it is, er, narrower. WTF? No. Just no.