Business-class Travellers

Indians are holidaying lavishly now, spending more on five-star hotels and booking business-class seats as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic that restricted travel for two years, according to the South Asian nation's second-biggest on

Deutsche Lufthansa will offer business-class seats that stretch to 2.2 meters (7 feet) in new Boeing 777 jets.

While the vast majority of fliers are feeling the squeeze with tighter and tighter economy seats and downright frightening customer-service disasters, we might well be witnessing the dawn of a new golden age of travel in the business-class section.

Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it would offer laptops to business-class travellers after Britain and the United States banned large electronic devices from the cabin of flights from certain countries.

If you wish and are a person of means, you can fly first-class round trip in luxury between Los Angeles and Dubai on an Emirates Airline A380 superjumbo jet. You will enjoy superb food and drink and be cosseted in a private compartment with a sliding door, a lie-flat seat with mattress, a vanity, a personal minibar and flat-screen television set, a...

Indians are holidaying lavishly now, spending more on five-star hotels and booking business-class seats as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic that restricted travel for two years, according to the South Asian nation's second-biggest on

Deutsche Lufthansa will offer business-class seats that stretch to 2.2 meters (7 feet) in new Boeing 777 jets.

While the vast majority of fliers are feeling the squeeze with tighter and tighter economy seats and downright frightening customer-service disasters, we might well be witnessing the dawn of a new golden age of travel in the business-class section.

Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it would offer laptops to business-class travellers after Britain and the United States banned large electronic devices from the cabin of flights from certain countries.

If you wish and are a person of means, you can fly first-class round trip in luxury between Los Angeles and Dubai on an Emirates Airline A380 superjumbo jet. You will enjoy superb food and drink and be cosseted in a private compartment with a sliding door, a lie-flat seat with mattress, a vanity, a personal minibar and flat-screen television set, a...