AFF Review: Emirates 777-300ER Premium Economy (MEL-DXB)

[AFF Editor]

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Emirates 777-300ER Premium Economy Review (Melbourne-Dubai) is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Emirates 777-300ER Premium Economy Review (Melbourne-Dubai)

Is the new Emirates Premium Economy worth the money? We review the full Premium Economy experience flying from Melbourne to Dubai on Emirates' newly refurbished Boeing 777-300ER.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[LoaderTosh]

“… And for many airlines, Premium Economy is now the most profitable “real estate” on the plane! …”

That’s because … if you take a good ‘to scale’ seat map source such as Aero Lopa and carefully measure a ‘cabin section’ length (assumes we are in the parallel fuselage section and not the tapering noise/tail sections), multiply it by the cabin width and divide that number by the number of seats in the measured section, you’ll almost invariably find that PremEcon ‘IS’ the most expensive seating per unit of cabin space purchased.

Note: I say “almost invariably” simply because I haven’t and don’t intend, measured every seat map for every airline on the planet. I did ‘do’ all the main airlines operating our corner of the globe; Qantas, Singapore, Cathay, Emirates, Air NZ, and PremEcon was the most expensive ‘real estate’ (least value) without exception.

Note2: Includes Econ, PremEcon, Business and First (where offered). Aisles have not been extracted. Toilets, food preparation areas, entry/exit areas have been extracted … i.e. Is seat value per unit of total ‘passenger occupied’ cabin area.

 

[SYD]

“… And for many airlines, Premium Economy is now the most profitable “real estate” on the plane! …”

That’s because … if you take a good ‘to scale’ seat map source such as Aero Lopa and carefully measure a ‘cabin section’ length (assumes we are in the parallel fuselage section and not the tapering noise/tail sections), multiply it by the cabin width and divide that number by the number of seats in the measured section, you’ll almost invariably find that PremEcon ‘IS’ the most expensive seating per unit of cabin space purchased.

Note: I say “almost invariably” simply because I haven’t and don’t intend, measured every seat map for every airline on the planet. I did ‘do’ all the main airlines operating our corner of the globe; Qantas, Singapore, Cathay, Emirates, Air NZ, and PremEcon was the most expensive ‘real estate’ (least value) without exception.

Note2: Includes Econ, PremEcon, Business and First (where offered). Aisles have not been extracted. Toilets, food preparation areas, entry/exit areas have been extracted … i.e. Is seat value per unit of total ‘passenger occupied’ cabin area.

“Value” to the flyer is always going to be very subjective.

Also depends hugely on whether you score a good Sale fare or paying the back rate (which invariably are disproportionately higher - but that’s probably also a function of supply and demand). Or can hack a cheaper fare as per the article.

The EK option looks quite decent.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

“… And for many airlines, Premium Economy is now the most profitable “real estate” on the plane! …”

That’s because … if you take a good ‘to scale’ seat map source such as Aero Lopa and carefully measure a ‘cabin section’ length (assumes we are in the parallel fuselage section and not the tapering noise/tail sections), multiply it by the cabin width and divide that number by the number of seats in the measured section, you’ll almost invariably find that PremEcon ‘IS’ the most expensive seating per unit of cabin space purchased.

Note: I say “almost invariably” simply because I haven’t and don’t intend, measured every seat map for every airline on the planet. I did ‘do’ all the main airlines operating our corner of the globe; Qantas, Singapore, Cathay, Emirates, Air NZ, and PremEcon was the most expensive ‘real estate’ (least value) without exception.

Note2: Includes Econ, PremEcon, Business and First (where offered). Aisles have not been extracted. Toilets, food preparation areas, entry/exit areas have been extracted … i.e. Is seat value per unit of total ‘passenger occupied’ cabin area.

You can just take the seat dimensions.

Economy is 31 x 17 = 527 square inches of floor space

PEY is almost always a 38 inch pitch, and width around 19 inches = 722 square inches.

Business is 78 x 22 = 1716 square inches.

If you take some average fares to Europe, $1500 economy, $4000 premium and $8000 business, the figures work out to:

$2.84 per sq inch for economy
$5.54 for premium economy
$4.66 for business

And with business you’re getting a raft of additional benefits such as lounges and upgraded food and beverage, which have to come out of the profit.

 

[lovestotravel]

PE is overpriced rubbish - Why bother

 

[MEL_Traveller]

PE is overpriced rubbish - Why bother

It’s better than economy! That’s for sure.

But the question is more likely… why pay premium economy when you could get business class on a second or third tier airline?

 

[lovestotravel]

It’s better than economy! That’s for sure.

But the question is more likely… why pay premium economy when you could get business class on a second or third tier airline?

Agree - I did PE once on Air NZ many years ago, and never again, back to J!

The prices people pay for PE is crazy !

 

[jrfsp]

PE is overpriced rubbish - Why bother

Especially as its usually a significant premium over Y, it was 10-20% I could be tempted but when its often 50% I'm not interested. Rather find a good business deal or just suffer in Y.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Especially as it’s usually a significant premium over Y, it was 10-20% I could be tempted but when it’s often 50% I'm not interested. Rather find a good business deal or just suffer in Y.

On a legacy carrier you’d be lucky to find a PEY fare for just 50% more. It’s at least double, and often triple the fare.

You can probably get value for money on some of the LCCs such as jetstar or scott, if you buy in sale. JQ’s current MEL-SIN fare of $589 in premium (‘jetstar business’) is competitively priced.