Luxury air travel: Future of business-class seats

Luxury air travel is moving beyond privacy doors and lie-flat seats

While the vast majority of fliers are feeling the squeeze with tighter and tighter economy seats (we’re looking at you, American Airlines) and downright frightening customer-service disasters (United), we might well be witnessing the dawn of a new golden age of travel in the business-class section.

Now a standard fixture on most planes — both the jumbo jets that regularly traverse oceans as well as the single-aisle planes that make domestic short hops — business class first debuted a mere 40 years ago. British Airways created a “Club Class” between first and coach back in 1978, while Qantas coined the