The day is finally here! In less than an hour, Qatar Airways is revealing their much anticipated "super business class." Qatar Airways' chief, Akbar Al Baker, will be revealing the new product in Berlin at 11AM (which is 5AM ET). Best of all, you can tune in for the event on Qatar Airways' Facebook page,…
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As someone with several upcoming QR 777 business class trips coming up... I sure hope so!
Lucky, thoughts on how quickly they'll roll out the updates?
@ Mike -- It'll be several months before the first plane with the new product is flying, so I wouldn't count on it being consistently available anytime soon. Hopefully we find out more in an hour!
I guess it'll be fundamentally the same as that on Delta. Probably the same seat manufacturer but with different "personal touches". 😉
Looks pretty amazing from the 10% actually visible... Too bad the Qatar video operator can't let us see anything at all!
You'd think they'd give higher priority to their own camera crews
Yeah, I like that very much. 🙂
Now, let's hear when it'll be rolled out across the entire fleet...
They should take some notes from Apple's unveilings. I don't imagine anyone on stream came to watch the musical performers.
Not sure about the subtlety of playing the theme from "The Godfather" as His Excellency swans by...
"Not sure about the subtlety of playing the theme from “The Godfather” as His Excellency swans by…"
@Paul dying XD
Not interested in the women playing violin, which is 90% of the feed. The other 10% is a static camera with no real access to the product. Go figure.
Okay, seriously, this is ridiculous. The product looks amazing, but this has to be the worst streaming reveal I've ever seen.
I'm loving all the angry facebook reactions at the video production
Lucky, this look like new best biz class hard product?
@ Mike -- Could be, but haven't seen enough of it to be able to tell. Can there be a press release already with professional pictures?!
@Mike I think Qatar arguably already had the best biz product. So any improvements just solidifies this standing.
agreed on worst stream ever - bit of a rugby scrum of PR and press rather than showing off the suite. From what you can actually see of the Q suite it looks very nice and an improvement on the current offering. Having flown the current Qatar seat on their A380, 787 and A350 a couple of months ago I was very impressed and this will take it to the next level in terms space and of privacy (which the current seat lacks.)
Best moment was his excellency walking by with the godfather playing and many admirers shaking hands with the paparazzi in tow.
Other than that, a terrible reveal with over-the-top cheese (the "activation" with the iPad? come on!) and piss poor filming quality.
New seat looks quite good though!
That was.... underwhelming. Between the lighting, the smoke and the camera clearly not giving a damn about the product....
While Qatar's feed seems to have died, Business Traveller is quoting that this seat:
“…will be across the fleet in B777s and A350s, and we have a new seat development for the B787s as this new seat can’t fit in the 787,”
and more on Twitter
https://twitter.com/qatarairways/status/839421320215539712
Pictures are starting to emerge (at least on Qatar Facebook)
Looks like a very enhanced British Airways Club World.
Not sure about the length of the legroom thogh...
Lucky, there's a Youtube video now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yhZDsctiZg
What kind of moron would design a product that couldn't fit in an aircraft that A) they have firm orders for 60 of B) is only 4 inches narrower (cabin width) than the A350?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqBd5elC6Y
Looks great for a family of 4 to travel together if you can grab the middle seats.