Regional Business Class
 

Sorry if posted earlier but it seems CX is suddenly making many of their regional flights the new A330-300 which means no PE and business seats essentially PE (even smaller seats it seems). Does anyone have more information ie will this become even more mainstream. My Bali biz flight was charged from 1-2-1 to a cramped 2-2-2, all ICN flights no longer have PE and my lunchtime SG flight was changed to 2-2-2. Thanks

Well, it's a regional flight afterall....

Is cx trying to compete with LCC or SQ?

you do realize that until the a333 refurb happens or when the a339 arrives, this is just biased bashing?

Why is it biased bashing? Its objectively bad. Its worse than what TG, PR and MY are debuting on their narrow bodies today. Quite frankly, its pretty embarrassing. CX are the ones who chose to the run outdated seats. No one forced them to twiddle their thumbs. I had to check but SQ was installing lie flat all aisle access regional business in 2018 before COVID. By the time CX puts it out on a refurbished 333 in 2026 - assuming thats on time - or a new 339 in 2028, it will a decade after SQ.

There are things CX does well and better than SQ. Regional business right now is definitely not one of them. Its probably on the same end of the spectrum as CX IT.

Are you talking about flights post-29MAR? If so, CX just puts placeholder on many regional flights before equipment is finalised. Before CX is determined to have Premium Economy on a particular flight, CX will not sell it.

yes, post end of March for ICN but the HKG-SIN flights seem to have changed now as did the Bali flight last week. I don’t visit this site often and above posts allude to a change in 2026 eg to 339 or 333 aircraft - my question is “are we to expect CX phasing out lie flat aisle free seats from now on with no PE?” Thanks

Apparently they will debut it in 2026 and its meant to be lie flat all aisle access - see below. This might be their intention but given we havn't even seen the teaser video and the general manufacturer delays, that seems optimistic to me. I didn't have high hopes for it but based on the recent news that they are going to redo the 321 economy, it seems like they have refocused on their hard product so who knows (maybe David does).

https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...ess-class-2026

Sorry, what was the question there?

Very much on track for Q4 debut. More details soon-ish.

A joke that you probably know what it looks like 😉

That was based on the Wing F and Aria both starting late but happy to be pleasantly surprised.

[QUOTE=CX860;37561751]Apparently they will debut it in 2026 and its meant to be lie flat all aisle access - see below. This might be their intention but given we havn't even seen the teaser video and the general manufacturer delays, that seems optimistic to me. I didn't have high hopes for it but based on the recent news that they are going to redo the 321 economy, it seems like they have refocused on their hard product so who knows (maybe David does).



that’s really useful, many thanks

Given the near daily minor schedule change emails I have been getting from CX in the past couple of days for flights between April and July, I would think at least the schedule is no longer a placeholder. Are you saying that the final aircraft assignment comes even later in the process? I am hoping to steer away from the ex-KA A333s at the very least.

I have flights from Bali in August and they are both on non lie fat business seats. I booked them thinking that there would be no change, but am I to understand that these could in fact change to the proper business seats i.e. are the aircraft types just placeholders? If so, when would they normally confirm aircraft for flights in August?