Qantas announced today that starting in late 2014 they'll be installing a new staggered business class seat on all 30 of their Airbus A330s, which includes those that fly domestically and internationally. Here are a couple of pictures: This looks like a solid staggered business class product with flat beds, so will be a huge…
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Looks more spacious and comfortable than the Mk II Skybeds in the A380 and refreshed 747s.
They look great.. amazing what some competition locally from Virgin Australia has done.
Shame that it's taking so long before they bring it to market though!
Excellent.
This will renew my use of QF as an option. The old product is/was ok once or twice, but more than that no thanks.
Great, now let's hope AA doesn't actually impose fuel surcharges in the next 18 months 🙂
Just to clarify, it'll mainly only be on domestic transcons between Perth and the east coast (similar to the rejuvenated US transcons), but it's a massive improvement for those, some mid-haul Asian sectors, and the couple of US flights currently serviced by the A330 fleet (BNE-LAX, for example).
A330s no longer go to the United States. They did, for a time, on the LAX-AKL route, but LAX-BNE is a 744 route.
@ wwk5d -- On the A380 Emirates has fully flat staggered seats, while Qatar has standard fully flat seats.
Lucky, is the QF A380 product out of LAX a fully lie-flat product in business? I have seen mixed comments on that. I think you should do some Oz trips and review Qantas, Virgin, United and Delta to down under!
I agree wholeheartedly with Scott! It would be great to see some new reviews of carriers servicing the Australian/US market.
And yes, all Qantas A388s are fitted with their fully flat, second-generation (lie-flat) Skybeds. A large majority of their 744s have also been refitted with these superior seats.
I have flights in July 2014. Anyone know if there is any chance they will roll some out early?
About time they had a decent business seat QF3/4 SYD to HNL to |SYD
Let's hope that the price is reasonable so we can actually afford it.