A look at Air New Zealand Business Premier

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• Kevin says:

  23 Sep23 September 11:28

  I have flown Air NZ in Club. It’s a very good product with lovely food and excellent service. The seat is rather like the Virgin one but slightly better because of a mattress topper and a much clearer TV screen.

  I flew yesterday on BA in Club upstairs on a A380 (upstairs, aisle seat). I felt there was less privacy on BA and the food was much better on NZ. BA was still good though and the toilet at the front is indeed enormous. You could have a party in there!

• andy L says:

  23 Sep23 September 12:37

  Guys, lets calm down. If we don’t like the posts – we stop reading, we find our info elsewhere. Rob can post whatever he likes. I have yet to see a substandard post though. Many will never directly help or affect me. This is of no consequence. I love this site, yet I accept that changes (as everywhere in life) are inevitable. Some people will approve, other will not. Such is life.

  Rob – thanks for the blog – keep up the great work.

  • Danksy says:

    23 Sep23 September 15:00

    +1

• Nick says:

  23 Sep23 September 13:09

  Poor old John is going to be furious when he reads the next Virgin article, as recent articles prove that Raffles has clearly started working for them on the check-in desks.

  • Rob says:

    23 Sep23 September 14:04

    I was also given – I kid you not – a Virgin onesie to take home. It is currently on a pile for the charity shop ….

    • CV3V says:

      23 Sep23 September 14:45

      charity shop? surely a competition prize?!

      • Rob says:

        23 Sep23 September 17:03

        I considered it and then thought it might be a bit too downmarket! I actually need to open it to see if it is a VS branded one or just the same suit without the logos …

        Would be a pain to post ….

    • Danksy says:

      23 Sep23 September 14:53

      Pics or it never happened 😛

• Paul says:

  23 Sep23 September 16:43

  “The seat is very similar to the one used by Virgin Atlantic in Upper Class”

  It is the SAME seat, licensed from Virgin (then the 787 edits licensed back to VS!)

  “It goes without saying that the seat reclines a full 180 degrees.”

  Not keen on the wording here, it doesn’t recline through to 180, its the same seat as virgin, it reclines a bit, if you want it flat, it flips.

  • Rob says:

    23 Sep23 September 17:05

    I hold my hands up to the bad wording on that line!

• VR says:

  23 Sep23 September 17:44

  Tried to see if I can book an economy/premier economy ticket throught he NZ link provided and nothing shows up for the next 6 months although the advertised price is £449 for economy, the actual price shown once past the booking screen is £1600 for flying out next week (and nothing past that date)

• krys_k says:

  23 Sep23 September 18:12

  Good article, in the sense that I learned something new from it. Same can’t be said for some of the comments. When I wake up in the morning I spend 15 minutes in bed reading bbc.co.uk, guardian.co.uk, economist.com and HFP. The HFP read is the one I look forward to most. This article hasn’t changed that.

  • Fenny says:

    23 Sep23 September 22:24

    This is me at the weekend. Weekdays, I value the additional time hiding under the duvet trying to summon up the energy to go to work!!! If I didn’t have to work, HfP would be my first read of the day.

• oyster says:

  23 Sep23 September 18:27

  Have we become so desperate about the ability to prevent 60% of the cabin seeing us pick our nose, that we’ve forgotten how magical it is to view our world from 35,000ft?
  On that point, why do the seats angle towards the aisle (funnily enough where people are) instead of towards the windows where no-one is?

  And what do couples do? And people with young children?

  • Fenny says:

    23 Sep23 September 22:26

    If they didn’t angle towards the aisle, there would need to be a gap between each seat to get in and out. And no window ledge behind the seat to put the duvet & spare pillow on.

    Not that I disagree with your point, but it’s not a practical option.

• Steve Blower says:

  23 Sep23 September 21:33

  When the BMI FF scheme was still running, I flew ANZ J many times. I absolutely loved it. It just blew BA J out of the water back then, even more so now. Not only is the seat great, the staff are amazing. So friendly, attentive and funny, too. The food is edible (BA please note, it is possible to cook an in flight steak properly), and the wine list is excellent.
  If they were in oneworld and I could use or get avios to fly them again, I would in a heartbeat.
  On the third sector, the check in guy said to me, we notice you seem to like 1A, it is currently reserved, but not occupied, let me try for you. Turned out the guy in the other row 1 seat was the ANZ CEO, but I didnt know until some way through the flight. I did wonder why the staff seemed to absolutely and genuinely dote on him. I happened to watch some promo in flight that he appeared in, dressed up as something daft, and asked him if it were he. He was a really lovely bloke too. Very different from WW.

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