News.com - Best Business Class - No QF

[Flying Fox]

Unfortunately QF missed the cut on this survey. Actually, so did EK.

Best airlines for business class revealed | News.com.au

 

[harvyk]

An opinion piece, nothing more... Again it's actually from the huff post (really all news.com.au is is a aggregater from a few different sources), so I doubt the actual author has ever flown on QF, and probably barely knows QF exists.

 

[eastwest101]

Yes - seems like a long haul J class focussed article, maybe the Huffington Post people were unaware that EK and CX exists! Some other ommissions may have been NZ or even VS. I am not sure about Oman Air - but the airlines mentioned in the article seem to have been mentioned by many people here as having good J class products i.e. SQ, OA, EY, QR that I guess most would agree with.

They seem to have included BA mostly because of the lounges so I find that dubious (although some people here like the new BA J class - will leave it for others to argue the merits), the ommission of CX J class is also very very strange. I don't know much about Swissair but will take their word for it.

Unless you are in a QF A380 then maybe in their opinion the QF J class just isn't quite good enough to make it (in their opinion) - but that brings up issues of consistency - something that most airlines seem to have issues with. Without a price per hour flying or price per mile figure its a bit meaningless as well as it may be great to have the worlds best J class but if you can't get people or corporations to pay your exorbitant prices then no-one will ever know you have the worlds best J class.

 

[mannej]

Considering that seatguru is a source and the article is lifted from another site, there isn't a great deal of credibility to the article.

The context of the article quite isn't for the Australian market is it? Oman air anybody?

 

[MH_fan]

I'm surprised CX is not listed there as I've heard so many people rave about their new J class product.

 

[smit0847]

Another pointless article from news.com - they clearly did they their research by omitting the worlds best business class (CX).

That LX J looks awfully cramped doesn't it!

 

[harvyk]

Considering that seatguru is a source and the article is lifted from another site, there isn't a great deal of credibility to the article.

The context of the article quite isn't for the Australian market is it? Oman air anybody?

The context for the article is east coast USA, which is where the Huffington post is based, and from what I can tell, specifically NYC. Whilst news.com.au has a travel section, I expect you could count the number of travel articles actually written by news.com.au writers per year on your fingers.

 

[mannej]

The context for the article is east coast USA, which is where the Huffington post is based, and from what I can tell, specifically NYC. Whilst news.com.au has a travel section, I expect you could count the number of travel articles actually written by news.com.au writers per year on your fingers.

Even then I think you would struggle...

 

[opusman]

No news from nonews.com.au, not very surprising.

 

[zainman]

EK wouldn't be in my top 5.. 2-3-2 config on a 777 no thanks.

 

[harvyk]

Even then I think you would struggle...

No, that's probably the number of times per year they have a (valid or thinly veiled) excuse to sink the boot into QF...

 

[TomVexille]

Their information about LX is woefully innacurate, form the laughably wrong picture of "business" class to how their European J is "innovative" because they block the middle seats (like every other Euro J) to the fact they call it Swissair. It's just Swiss. Swissair is defunct.

Then again the entire article is pretty useless.

 

[RooFlyer]

Zounds. What a load of tosh.

Have a look at the "we recommend" at the bottom of the page and you'll see exactly where this story belongs!

 

[harvyk]

Then again the entire article is pretty useless.

That's the thing with these sorts of articles. The entire "best of" when comparing airlines is pretty subjective. Something which pleases someone, will annoy someone else. Something which someone thinks is no big deal with be a huge deal for someone else. Furthermore since people are not robots (and I'm talking both airline staff as well as pax) as the individual experience will vary from flight to flight.

Furthermore, it appears the actual author has done exactly zero BIS time, since they source from websites and old FA's.

Finally, for me the measure of a good airline is not when things are going well, that's a given. It's when things all turn to the proverbial, either my fault or theirs, that the true measure of an airline is found.

 

[Sprucegoose]

An opinion piece, nothing more... Again it's actually from the huff post (really all news.com.au is is a aggregater from a few different sources), so I doubt the actual author has ever flown on QF, and probably barely knows QF exists.

Agree self serving babble. No CX yet there was BA?? Who pens this rubbish??

 

[Sprucegoose]

Their information about LX is woefully innacurate, form the laughably wrong picture of "business" class to how their European J is "innovative" because they block the middle seats (like every other Euro J) to the fact they call it Swissair. It's just Swiss. Swissair is defunct.

Then again the entire article is pretty useless.

I thought the Swiss went broke. Sitting on a fence is not that productive.....

 

[TomVexille]

I thought the Swiss went broke. Sitting on a fence is not that productive.....

Other way around. Swissair ceased operations 31 March 2002. Swiss International Air Lines (known as Swiss) took over most operations of Swissair on 1 April 2002.