Originally Posted by
Calchas
Intra-European flat beds are rare because the market will no longer tolerate the accompanying prices.
Except for equipment swaps there are a small number of exceptions.
QR do ZAG-BUD and TBS-GYD on A320s as fifth freedom flights. These are sometimes flat beds and sometimes they are recliner seats. QR also used to do OTP-SOF but SOF recently received direct service from DOH.
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http://www.thebasource.com/seatmaps/a321/23j131y.html
QR recently discontinued their ZAG-BUD flight. Now they go ZAG-DOH and BUD-DOH direct.
But back to the original issue, I think that except for places like Moscow and Istanbul, Europe isn't big enough to support the demand for fully flat biz seats. I understand that lie flat is almost always preferable to recliners or the economy seats with the middle blocked that most European airlines use, but since very few intra-European flights operate overnight, most people eat and work and read instead of sleeping on the daytime flights.