Flight Reviews

Air India’s business class has a patchy reputation but, after waiting months to step foot on a long-haul plane, I was happy to fly the national carrier’s Boeing 777 on the short hop from Delhi to Mumbai. Was the experience as bad as expected?

I was excited to be one of the first to experience Vistara's new narrow-body aircraft featuring flat-bed business class seats, and jumped at the chance to fly from Chennai to Delhi last week.

In the second instalment of this series, I’ll be concentrating on the in-flight experience when I travelled from London to Zagreb (and back) in British Airways Club Europe business last week.

I decided to upgrade my recent Vistara flight from premium economy to business class. In this article, I will take you through my experience of the flight, with lots of pictures.

I got an opportunity to fly both Emirates’ new and old first class cabins shortly after the new first class product was launched.

Oman Air is known for offering reasonable fares for one-way tickets and I recently travelled with them in business class from Mumbai to London, via Muscat.

Vistara is the only Indian airline to offer premium economy, so I was keen to try this product - pitched as a significant upgrade from economy, for just a little extra.

BA introduced a series of improvements to its first class product, with better bedding, a redesigned meal concept including canapes and new partnerships with Temperley and Meridian.

It had been a few years since I last tried Virgin Atlantic’s business class - and a good-value redemption flight provided the opportunity to give it another go.

A blocked middle seat and free food and drinks is about as good as it gets for European business class.