Pictures: Turkish Airlines’ New 787 Business Class

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: June 20, 2019

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Update: Read my full Turkish Airlines 787 Business Class review.

I’m a huge fan of Turkish Airlines’ onboard product. I find Turkish Airlines to have an exceptional business class soft product, in particular the food, service, and amenities.

Turkish Airlines business class catering

The one major downside to Turkish Airlines’ business class up until now is their lackluster seats. Fortunately that’s changing soon.

Turkish Airlines business class cabin A330

We’ve known for quite a while that Turkish Airlines is introducing a new business class product on their Boeing 787-9s. The airline has 25 Boeing 787-9s, as well as 25 Airbus A350-900s, on order. They’re just taking delivery of their first 787, and should take delivery of their first A350 soon. Unfortunately they don’t plan to reconfigure existing planes with these new seats anytime soon.

Turkish Airlines 787-9

Anyway, up until now the airline has only shared a couple of renderings of their new business class product. With Turkish Airlines’ first 787-9 being ready to go, the airline has now shared some real pictures of the plane.

Here are some pictures of the new business class cabin:

Turkish Airlines 787-9 business class

Then here are some pictures of the new economy cabin:

Turkish Airlines 787-9 economy class

If the seat looks familiar, it’s because the business class product is the same one that Singapore Airlines has installed on their new 787-10s. While Singapore uses those planes for regional routes, it’s still a competitive seat.

If you want to fly Turkish Airlines’ new 787-9:

The first US route to get the 787-9 will be Washington Dulles, which will get the plane as of August 8, 2019
The next US route to get the 787-9 will be Atlanta, which will get the plane as of September 10, 2019

Unfortunately I’m finding award availability on those routes is extremely limited — hopefully that changes eventually, as I find Turkish to be really inconsistent with making award seats available.

All things considered I’d say Turkish Airlines currently ranks in my top five global business class product. With these new seats I think they’ll squarely be in the number two spot, right behind Qatar Airways’ Qsuites.

What do you make of Turkish Airlines’ new business class? Are you excited to try it?

(Tip of the hat to YHBU)

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Andrew S Guest

September 25, 2019, 9:41 pm

I used to fly Turkish business class quite a bit to East Africa a few years ago from IAD - IST. The business class seats were simple, but always quite comfortable and good for sleeping. I flew the new configuration and seats on the 787 from IAD - IST through the new airport and want to confirm a few things that have been said on the board: - the seats are flashy and look nice - they are significantly less comfortable than the older seats, and well below what one would expect from competitors. - the seat dimensions are the smallest lay-flat business class seats I have experienced. I am 6'5" and can comfortably lay completely flat (shoes off) in every other long-haul business class I have traveled. I cannot do that in the new Turkish seats - my head and feet touch both ends. To make it worse, the space for legs is too tight to sleep on one's side - physically, there just isn't enough space to bend knees to make my body shorter. To get rest, I had to angle the seat upwards, which defeats the purpose of lay-flat seats. - they keep the cabins way too hot. Turkish has lost me as a customer with the new seats. The perks of the excellent food in the lounge and on the flights just doesn't make up for the supremely uncomfortable seats. Plus, the new airport is cavernous.

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Kjell Hogstad Guest

June 23, 2019, 4:39 pm

I booked a award ticket in business class for IST-MEX-CUN-IST on the new 787 some months ago. Had no issue find available seats. The trip will take place in Nov/Dec 2019. I have traveled with Turkish in business a couple of times, and in my view they are OK. As stated by others, the soft product is good, and to some extent better than so called 5* airlines. I don't hesitate to fly Turkish, at least on business class

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Andrew Guest

June 22, 2019, 1:56 pm

The author says award availability for these routes is "extremely limited." Has anyone seen any saver availability at all for either economy or business on the Washington-Istanbul route? I'm looking at flights in the Fall, but I don't see anything at the moment.

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Mattux Member

June 21, 2019, 11:39 pm

Given these are the same business class seats as on the SQ 787X, I would say these are not ideal for long haul premium seating. Great for 3-6 hour flights that Singapore Airlines uses them for but not too much longer than that. If you are on the taller or wider side these are quite tight. Still I think it is an improvement over the 2-2-2 they are currently flying, unless traveling with a significant other.

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Mag Guest

June 21, 2019, 10:40 am

Has anyone found a seatmap on any of these flights that has any seats in aisle F unoccupied? I don't know if they're blocked for a reason or what. Trying to get two seats together.

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