There are lots of airlines out there with unique aircraft layouts, though I’d say Azman Air is in a league of their own when it comes to the former Virgin Atlantic A340-600 that they just acquired.
Continue reading: New Azman Air A340 Has TWO Business Class Seats
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Not true, ELAL has a 737-800 that is configured with 2 real J class seats and the rest is Y.
It was originally for crew rest but they are sometimes used for regular J service when the specific bird is used.
Might it be because of requirements like this, from your post about Kenya Airways in Burundi?
https://onemileatatime.com/burundi-business-class/
"It will be fascinating to see how this plane is deployed"
I was expecting more of a "I cannot wait to try out this new product" from you! Wouldn't it be an epic trip? 🙂
Perhaps this is meant to solve the problem of: "my Vice President to the Assistant Director of Embezzlement can't fly in business class??? What horrible disrespect! You will not be allowed to land in my obscure African fiefdom!!!"
@Romanianflyer
That would be an interesting trip report to see, if only to see what service would be offered for those 2 business class seats compared to economy around it (assuming the plane isn't used for just charter flights).
Also, the leg room for the seats behind those 2 BC seats looks great.
More interesting would be whether it even has curtains. Otherwise, the occupants should expect glares from being surrounded by everyone else in Y.
Garuda flies a a330 to Shanghai with only 2 business class seats all the time.
There must still be a crew rest, or are the big seats meant for pilot and captain when resting?
Do they actually sell those 2 seats, or they are for pilot rest on longer trips?
Trip report time, Lucky!
@DaKine:
That's exactly what I presume the case to be, too. In fact, it was my very first thought. Though I figured the title would be more along the lines of "His Premier Eminence, the Right Honourable Minister of Cash Siphoning".
I think I know which airline is going to be next to get a Skytrax 5* rating.
😉
It does make a degree of sense, under EASA and FAA regulations those would count as a Class 3 rest facility, for the purposes of extending Flight Duty Periods (FDP). Class 2 is basically curtained off lie flat seats and Class 1 is a proper isolated crew rest area.
Obviously it would be Nigerian regulations that would apply but most places follow EASA/FAA.
Now to do a Haj flight - Lagos to Jeddah would be about 5 1/2 hours. To do the return flight with the same crew, allowing turn around time and preflight time would be pushing it - the limit for an single extended duty period varies from about 11 to 14 hours depending on the start time.
But if you put in 2 x Class 3 rest seats you can push that up to a flat 15 hours with additional crew members, which would give a lot more flexibility.
They would be tech crew or cabin crew rest for sure and perhaps when there’s some “VIP businessman”
Those are the seats for the son of the Nigerian Oil Minister who keeps emailing people looking for a bank account to funnel his monry thru....
@MT
They do? Last time I flew them from PVG my seat was arranged in a reverse herringbone layout
@ AR
We announce you the King of All African Titles. We are humbled by your greatness; and merely hope that we might be granted a fruit cup, while you luxuriate in one of the two business class seats you clearly deserve.
You flatter me! Clearly the other seat shall be reserved for you. Who else better suited to occupy that seat than His/Her Supreme Highness, the Right and Good Secretary of Butt-Kissery. 😉
They should create like a VIP area, with a bodyguard and a rope all around the seat perimeter
I'm thinking those are not meant for customers. they're for Executives or owners uses only.
Those seats are probably expensive if for a customer or may go to some important government people. We have to remember that this is Africa where if the government does not have or maintain their own fleet they will fly commercial. Further, this airline likely has no partners.
Azman airlines class that as business class it say it on there wiki page why I don't know what is the point of having two business class seats if there in the same cabin