First interior shots of the new British Airways A350, including Club Suite business class

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• guesswho2000 says:

  27 Jun27 June 07:40

  Yeah it looks a bit boring in daylight (or at least ‘normal’ lighting), but with some mood lighting and all the cabin blinds closed, it’ll look fine.

• ChrisD says:

  27 Jun27 June 07:48

  Maybe just me, but these don’t look like photos, they look like computer generated images. The lighting is too uniform.

  • Rob says:

    27 Jun27 June 08:53

    I think they are BA PR pics that leaked. The VR they are doing does not have that dummy IFE image.

• Pb says:

  27 Jun27 June 07:51

  First picture reminds me of where we keep the horses , with a screen as a bonus .

  • john doe says:

    27 Jun27 June 10:17

    Let me translate that for the rest of us
    “I have horses and stables”

• Richard says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:10

  Is that 11 rows of business seats in the same cabin??

  • David says:

    27 Jun27 June 09:53

    There’s no pleasing some people! First they complain about 8 seats across, then they complain about 11 seats along the aisle… This isn’t a private jet you know!

    • Frenzie says:

      27 Jun27 June 10:19

      So true.

    • Rob says:

      27 Jun27 June 11:12

      Private jets can be uncomfy too. And at least the A350 has loos, which smaller private jets don’t.

      • Mike says:

        27 Jun27 June 14:41

        Hah, you beat to the comment about private jets and loos: remember the story going around the City of the poor fella and his uncomfortable experience using the doorless “loo” aboard a jet after an endless night of celebrations post-deal closing… Definitely worse than having to endure BA’s Club World (old or new)!

        • Anna says:

          27 Jun27 June 14:49

          A family on holiday at the same time as us one year had been flown from Chicago to Grand Cayman in their Grandpa’s tiny twin prop plane (GCM airport, though small, has plenty of private jet facilities!) Toilet facilities consisted of empty pop bottles 😂

    • Richard says:

      27 Jun27 June 18:09

      I’d rather have 8 across to keep our 2 year old enclosed in the middle 2 – look at all the space he can roam in and people he can disturb here!

      • David says:

        27 Jun27 June 18:15

        You could just close the door?

        • Richard says:

          27 Jun27 June 21:01

          Show him the door opens and closes and he’ll spend an hour playing with it … actually that might be useful! And a good test of the door quality!

      • Rob says:

        27 Jun27 June 20:28

        This is not a cabin for small children. There is not even much of a divider between the middle pair.

        • Richard says:

          27 Jun27 June 21:03

          Glad the roll out will take a while!

  • JP-MCO says:

    27 Jun27 June 19:11

    Singapore’s A350ULR has 11 rows in their Business Class cabin too. Seems to be a pretty standard config for the A350.

• AJA says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:28

  I quite like the colour scheme. It’s practical and won’t show scuff and scrapes quite as much as the current CW scheme. The actual seat looks more blue than I thought it would be.

  My only criticism of the CW seat is that as a fully flat bed it doesn’t look that long, meaning more than just your feet are stuck in the cubby hole under the IFE. The available space looks like you might bang your knees as the IFE screen is so large. I hope not.

  I definitely like the direct aisle access from all seats and they look very private which will be a big improvement. Pity there was no pic of the middle seats to give an impression of the overall cabin.

  The WTP cabin looks just like WT. It’s huge. I thought the idea of WTP was a big improvement over WT with a more comfortable seat and a smaller “more exclusive” private cabin feel. Still it does look like there is a potential for more seats to be open to Avios redemptions.

  I pity the WT passengers, they really are stuffed in. Those seats look very uncomfortable. Thankfully I can afford to never travel back there.

  • ChrisC says:

    27 Jun27 June 16:31

    It’s longer than the current seat and pictures can alter perceptions

    https://headforpoints.com/2019/03/18/british-airways-club-suite-launched/

    “British Airways is advertising Club Suite as a 79 inch long bed when fully reclined. This is seven inches longer than the current Club World seat. In reality the bed is longer but because it tapers into a V-shape they are not measuring it directly to the tip of the ‘V’.”

• Harry says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:35

  The Club suite looks very nice. I personally would have preferred a contrast color scheme with one lighter shade but I don’t choose my flights based on the cabin color scheme.

  However World Traveller Plus at eight across must have fairly narrow seats, I don’t think it is the camera angle. The bulkhead seat will be used to cross from one side of the cabin to the other, not a good place to be, but a great deal better than the first Economy seat which is to be avoided at all costs! I have never found BA WTP good value. The seats are far less comfortable than Club with not that great a price differential. The BA cabin crews also have a sublimely British snobby way of letting you know that they think you want to fly Club but cannot afford it. I don’t find WTP a good hard or soft product and the picture doesn’t make it look as though the hard product has been improved much, if at all. Fortunately, I can afford Club and only fly WT when Club is [rarely] full.

  • BSI1978 says:

    27 Jun27 June 08:42

    “The BA cabin crews also have a sublimely British snobby way of letting you know that they think you want to fly Club but cannot afford it”.

    This!

    Have a lot of time for the CC usually, but I have had this feeling more than once – thought it was my paranoia!

    • Gavin says:

      27 Jun27 June 09:39

      The provision of cava in the drinks trolley is a subtle way to reinforce this!

      • TGLoyalty says:

        27 Jun27 June 11:50

        Ther’s Cava in the drinks trolley?

        its basically Iberia Business

  • Anna says:

    27 Jun27 June 14:54

    +1. Paying for extra leg room in WT is infinitely better value than stumping up for WTP.

  • Ben says:

    27 Jun27 June 16:02

    I think WTP is a decent improvement on WT. In WT, you have to share arm rests and shoulder space, and sitting next to a large person in WT on a long haul flight give me back ache for a week. The extra legroom, width and recline make a lot of difference to comfort imo.

    OK, so maybe I tell myself that because WTP (and equivalent) is all my company will pay for, and I know that club/biz is a far bigger step up (I upgrade at every chance I get). But I still appreciate WTP.

• Nigel says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:40

  It could be fun, when they announce the timings for A350 Madrid flights, to try to coordinate on one as a H4P group outing…

  • Gringo says:

    27 Jun27 June 11:54

    H4P Christmas party 2019 location sorted

    • Polly says:

      27 Jun27 June 21:55

      Off to Madrid then…

      • Mr(s) Entitled says:

        27 Jun27 June 23:23

        A lot of HfPers have already done Madrid this year. #6

• Geoff says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:59

  The main seat hardware looks very similar to the newer Saudia business class seat which I found very comfortable. The storage spaces in the side unit are useful but not very deep due to the foot space of the seat behind.

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