New Club World (Genuinely something new)
Mar 8, 2019, 2:07 pm
#931
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold; Flying Blue Life Platinum; LH Sen.; Hilton Diamond; Kemal Kebabs Prized Customer
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Mar 8, 2019, 2:26 pm
#932
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Programs: BAEC Blue, Flying Blue Silver, Hilton Gold, Marriot Gold
Posts: 817
Mar 8, 2019, 3:11 pm
#933
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: LHR, LGW
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,418
So (according to Cruz recent interviews) only a few weeks to go...
God help BA & FT
God help BA & FT
Mar 8, 2019, 3:13 pm
#934
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, SQ Gold, KQ Platinum, IHG Diamond Ambassador, Hilton Gold, Marriott Silver, Accor Silver
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My money's on a modified version of the VantageXL seat: https://www.thompsonaero.com/seating-range/vantagexl/
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Mar 8, 2019, 3:47 pm
#936
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 34
My money's on a modified version of the VantageXL seat: https://www.thompsonaero.com/seating-range/vantagexl/
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Mar 8, 2019, 3:54 pm
#937
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: LHR, LGW
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,418
I wonder if PriestmanGoode will be involved.
Mar 8, 2019, 3:58 pm
#938
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Orchard Co. NI
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 607
My money's on a modified version of the VantageXL seat: https://www.thompsonaero.com/seating-range/vantagexl/
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Last edited by noniron; Mar 8, 2019 at 4:32 pm
Mar 8, 2019, 4:10 pm
#939
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges and Environmentally Friendly Travel
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, UK
Posts: 22,212
The Qsuite seats, developed by Qatar Air and B/E Aerospace Inc., are installed so that sets of four face each other to form a mini meeting area once barriers are dropped. Each berth can also dock with the one next to it to create what the carrier says is the industry’s first double bed in a business-class cabin.
Qatar Air has ownership of key elements of the design, which took two years to develop and has already been installed on some of its Boeing Co. 777 jets.
Qatar Air has ownership of key elements of the design, which took two years to develop and has already been installed on some of its Boeing Co. 777 jets.
Mar 8, 2019, 4:13 pm
#940
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 34
this Skift article published in Jan 2018 gave credit to B/E Aerospace
The Qsuite seats, developed by Qatar Air and B/E Aerospace Inc., are installed so that sets of four face each other to form a mini meeting area once barriers are dropped. Each berth can also dock with the one next to it to create what the carrier says is the industry’s first double bed in a business-class cabin.
Qatar Air has ownership of key elements of the design, which took two years to develop and has already been installed on some of its Boeing Co. 777 jets.
Qatar Air has ownership of key elements of the design, which took two years to develop and has already been installed on some of its Boeing Co. 777 jets.
Mar 8, 2019, 6:39 pm
#941
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Actually in the grand scheme of it, two years is just a part of the overall project for a premium seat.
whenever in the original product life cycle you might start, there would be about a year of design creation, ideas proposals and decisions etc,
on top of that there might be another 2 years of technical design stages including milestones such as ITCM, PDR and CDR. And a further year of testing and retesting and further revisions before it’s out the door.
So a total of 4 years is not unreasonable. Of course everything can move so much quicker if you’re Emirates or Etihad but the milestone meetings are usually at fixed intervals which are driven by FAA, EASA, Airbus and Boeing.
the only thing we can be sure of is that this one will make its debut on the first A350-1000 delivery.
This is my opinion and and anyone else’s whatsoever. 😜
Mar 8, 2019, 9:27 pm
#942
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 1,841
My money's on a modified version of the VantageXL seat: https://www.thompsonaero.com/seating-range/vantagexl/
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Qatar's Qsuite is based on this product, but extensively modified and customised with a door and orientation changes (forwards/backwards).
Mar 9, 2019, 1:09 am
#943
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: AMS
Programs: BAEC Silver, Flying Blue Gold, TK M&S Nobody
Posts: 2,468
I notice that Qatar's very interesting new Quadra 3 Economy seat (see reviews in Business Traveller and HfP, also Quadra) may take up to 8 years to implement. Clearly there are a lot of seats involved here, but equally one assumes a less difficult manufacturing task than a flat-bed business seat.
Mar 9, 2019, 4:44 am
#944
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Location: London
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