To continue my Iceland to The Residence via Cambodia trip, I flew Icelandairs Airbus A321LR Saga Class on the 2hr50min flight from Keflavik (KEF) to London (LHR). I had flown Icelandair’s Boeing 737 MAX 8 Saga Class from New York (JFK) several days before, and was excited to see how the carrier’s newest plane compared.
Continue reading: Review: Icelandair Saga Business Class Airbus A321LR (KEF-LHR)
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
I'd concur, the product front to back on the A321 far exceeds the 737 in every way.
Icelandair is a LCC pretending to be a legacy carrier; they really should have installed lie-flat for their premium products, especially since they regularly operate redeyes on 5+ hour flights.
Nice review, thanks!
Can you book the stopover online or to you have to call in?
22 years ago, I booked an Icelandair trip (including a stopover) online. I'm assuming they haven't broken that functionality.
Couldn’t help but notice a Concorde parked at Heathrow. I don’t know there were any left.
Their reasoning is surely that they only fly to the northern partn parts of the US, and so flights are much shorter than on other European airlines.
And as mostly a vacation airline, its passengers mostly prefer lower fares than the full business class experience.
You woould only get to sleep a couple fo hours eastbound, and not at all westboaund, so the lack of lie-flat is no great loss. As long as the soft product is good, I am not so bothered about the hard product being "US style domestic first".
Your review doesn’t really seem to be four and half stars based on the observations you made. Seems more like a four to me.
“Business Class “?? lol, maybe for poor people! No way I’d ever step foot in that cabin.
Business class? Joke
Crazy Davey "Derek Zoolander" Stafford has totally lost his mind in the comments, and happens to be the same person, who is represented and financed by the resident crazy (Delta Fanatic Tom Deuce). It could have taken place at any time, including many months ago but Dave has finally snapped! Can anyone imagine a Stupid and Low-IQ Icelandair Hater being propped up by another buffoon over a bunch of MADE UP FACTS!
Ben - Just wondering if when you cleared security at Heathrow for your connecting flight whether you left liquids and other items in your carry on and in general how you found the security with the new scanners.
Rod, have you been posting at VFTW, lately? Someone named “P. Ness” was making a firm argument over there. Might have to consult with Jack MeHoff and ‘my income is 8 figures’ on this blog-mystery.
Tom, they flew to Florida; how is that the north? Leisure is paying a premium for lie-flat these days. It seems cheap and a missed opportunity for Icelandair to not install lie-flat on its newer aircraft. I mean, they could also upgrade the cabins on their 767s as well if they wanted to.
Unc, yes, always.
Really love the value of this product. I understand that it is not lie flat business class, but it is not priced as such either. I have found from the US it is often priced cheaper than premium economy on larger legacy carriers.
Lounge access in KEF makes the stop over more comfortable. Food onboard has been good. The smaller premium cabin more exclusive.
Eastbound I can understand the desire for lie flat, but if you are looking to save some $$ westbound, this gets you most of what you need.
Liquids up to 2 litres can now be left inside your hand luggage at all security checkpoints through LHR: https://www.heathrow.com/at-the-airport/security-and-baggage/hand-baggage-and-liquids
In practice, any liquids larger than about 100ml will be rejected for a manual inspection in a red microwave-esque scanner, but you'll still be allowed to keep it.
Generally things flow pretty quickly at security now that they have introduced this.
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Dave, then you must never fly domestically in the US because US domestic "first" or "business" is like Saga. Or worse, i.e. no lie-flat seat, single aisle aircraft, no or low quality food etc.
@ Beachfan -- Indeed, it's bookable online, and can also easily be searched on Google Flights by using the multi-city feature. 🙂 The stopover program is something that Icelandair is proud of, and heavily promotes.
@ Erik J. -- Indeed, there's one on permanent display there. Sadly it no longer flies, as you'd expect.
@ Cam -- I thought the hard product was excellent, especially when you consider every other airline flying between Iceland and other points of Europe has an intra-Europe business class product. To me that's more important than anything else.
@ P. Roberts -- I could leave liquids in my bag, and I found the transit experience to be really quick. Admittedly I wasn't transiting during the busiest period.
Fly across the US and you get the same sort of "business class" seat as on this flight for flights that are several hours.
Exactly. I find it odd that some folks are demanding that Icelandair put lieflat seats on 5 hour flights, but are happy to go without them on US transcontinental flights.
The value proposition with Icelandair is a lower price premium experience without some of the frills.
Please fix the title. It's Saga Class or Saga Premium Economy.
There's no such thing as Saga Business Class on Icelandair
Hi Lucky!
Just came back from Helsinki via Icelandair the day after your flight (funny enough). Is it just me or was their coffee amazing? I took it black with 2 sugar and it was possibly the best I've ever had. Admittedly I am not a coffee connoisseur (at all) but any coffee I've been offered by connoisseurs in the US over the years has always been very underwhelming. Is there a way to find out what kind of coffee they serve?
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They are a hybrid carrier, not pretending to be anything. This product is really good.