Flight Reviews

In typical fashion, Air India pulled a surprise on me when a Boeing 787 Dreamliner turned up to take me from Delhi to Mumbai, instead of a scheduled short-haul Airbus. I scrambled to get an upgrade, but I had to make do with economy class this time around.

It's not everyday that you get to book the iconic Boeing 747 on a domestic route. I was excited to try out the "Queen of the Skies" on an Air India flight from Kolkata to Delhi.

After earlier reviewing Vistara's Airbus 320 and 321neo in business class, I was finally able to fly the airline's Boeing 737 aircraft on one of their longer domestic routes, from Mumbai to Kolkata.

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.