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Category: Airline Reviews

Here you will find my best airline reviews in first and business class such as Etihad Airways First Class on A380, Garuda Indonesia Business Class on Boeing 777, Qantas First Class on A380, Japan Airlines Business Class on Boeing 767, British Airways Business Class on Boeing 777, Qatar Airways First Class on A380, Thai Airways First Class on Boeing 747, United Polaris Business Class on Boeing 767 and Iberia Business Plus on A330. More airline reviews are coming soon. Most of these flights are booked with frequent flyer miles. Check the Miles & Points Guide on this blog for how to fly business and first class on frequent flyer miles.

Review: KLM Boeing 787-9 World Business Class

Review: KLM Boeing 787-9 World Business Class

by Goffe de BoerMarch 27, 2020July 28, 20231

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has 2 types of Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Unlike the Boeing 777 aircrafts of KLM, all these Dreamliners have a 1-2-1 reverse herringbone configuration in World Business Class. In my opinion, this is a huge improvement for the KLM hard product in World Business Class. Myself, I …

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Review: EVA Air Boeing 777 Royal Laurel Business Class

Review: EVA Air Boeing 777 Royal Laurel Business Class

by Goffe de BoerMarch 23, 2020March 23, 20200

EVA Air Royal Laurel Business Class is known as one of the best business class worldwide, especially because of the excellent in-flight service. While the seat is not really different from other business class seats, the amenity kits, champagne and food on board are from first class standards. EVA Air …

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Review: Garuda Boeing 777 Business Class (2020)

Review: Garuda Boeing 777 Business Class (2020)

by Goffe de BoerMarch 8, 2020March 23, 20200

Garuda Indonesia has many different types of business class seats on their aircrafts. While their A330 aircrafts have Super Diamond Seats in a reverse herringbone configuration, all Boeing 777 aircrafts are equipped with Stelia Solstys III seats in a staggered configuration. Back in 2018, I flew Garuda Indonesia business class …

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Review: Vietnam Airlines A350 Business Class

Review: Vietnam Airlines A350 Business Class

by Goffe de BoerFebruary 29, 2020March 23, 20200

Vietnam Airlines has Airbus A350-900 aircrafts with two types of seats in business class. The aircrafts with staggered seats are primarily used on short and medium haul routes within Asia while the aircrafts with reverse herringbone seats (like on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner) are primarily used on long haul routes. …

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Review: Malaysia Airlines A330-200 Business Class

Review: Malaysia Airlines A330-200 Business Class

by Goffe de BoerFebruary 20, 2020May 14, 20220

Malaysia Airlines has a total of 21 Airbus A330 aircrafts. 15 of them are A330-300s that are configured with the same seats as on the A380s. The other 6 are Airbus A330-200s that Malaysia Airlines is leasing for some high-demand medium haul routes. These aircrafts were previously used by Air Berlin …

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Review: Qatar Airways A350-1000 Qsuites Business Class

Review: Qatar Airways A350-1000 Qsuites Business Class

by Goffe de BoerFebruary 8, 2020April 26, 20220

Nowadays, Qatar Airways offers one of the best business class products in the world: the Qsuites. They call it ‘first in business class’. I recently flew Qsuites on a flight from Doha to Singapore on the A350-1000. A few years ago, I flew them in first class on the A380 …

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Review: KLM Boeing 747 World Business Class (Upper)

Review: KLM Boeing 747 World Business Class (Upper)

by Goffe de BoerJanuary 11, 2020May 14, 20222

Update March 29, 2020: KLM has now retired its entire Boeing 747 fleet KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is one of the fewer airlines that is still operating some flights with a Boeing 747, one of my favorite types of aircraft. In April 2018, I had the chance to fly on …

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Review: KLM Boeing 747 World Business Class (Lower)

Review: KLM Boeing 747 World Business Class (Lower)

by Goffe de BoerDecember 2, 2019May 14, 20221

Update March 29, 2020: KLM has now retired its entire Boeing 747 fleet KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is one of the fewer airlines that is still operating some flights with a Boeing 747, one of my favorite types of aircraft. In April 2018, I had the chance to fly on …

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Review: Air New Zealand Boeing 777 Business Class

Review: Air New Zealand Boeing 777 Business Class

by Goffe de BoerNovember 16, 2019January 29, 20206

Air New Zealand is operating some of the daily flights between Sydney and Auckland by wide-body aircrafts like the Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner. After my flight with Thai Airways in Royal First on a Boeing 747 from Bangkok and a short visit to Sydney, I was ready to fly further …

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Review: China Airlines A350 Business Class

Review: China Airlines A350 Business Class

by Goffe de BoerSeptember 27, 2019January 29, 20200

China Airlines, the flagship carrier of Taiwan, currently has 14 Airbus A350 aircrafts with a reverse herringbone business class. These are mainly used on long haul routes to Australia, Europe and North America, but during the day the airline also uses these aircrafts on routes within Asia, including Bangkok-Taipei. I …

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Review: Iberia Airbus A330-200 Business Plus

Review: Iberia Airbus A330-200 Business Plus

by Goffe de BoerSeptember 13, 2019May 13, 20220

Iberia offers a decent business class product in a staggered 1-2-1 configuration on all of their long haul aircrafts. I was pretty excited to start my 1 month trip to South America by flying Iberia’s Business Plus on an A330 earlier this year. I booked a roundtrip from Madrid to …

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Review: Japan Airlines Boeing 767 Business Class

Review: Japan Airlines Boeing 767 Business Class

by Goffe de BoerAugust 9, 2019February 20, 20200

Japan Airlines has a many different types of business class. Anyone familiar with this airline will certainly have heard about the Sky Suites. A few years ago I flew in the Sky Suite I from Seoul to Tokyo. In this review you can read about my experiences in the Sky …

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