The difference between an anxiety-inducing long-haul flight and a downright pleasant one comes down to one thing: your seat. And as any seasoned traveller knows, there’s more to it than your mere cabin assignment.
These are the best new premium plane seats to look out for in the months ahead – and details on how to find them.By next year, Air New Zealand’s ultra-long-haul flights – such as those from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Auckland – will benefit from new suites on retrofitted Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
Air New Zealand’s new six-bed Skynest will start flying next year and can be booked in four-hour slots. One cabin that’s still shrouded in secrecy is Cathay Pacific’s long-overdue Aria Suite, a much buzzed-about rethink of the airline’s first-class cabin that’s expected on the airline’s Boeing 777-300ERs. Anticipated routes and the full slate of amenities have been kept hush-hush, but the expectation from early leaks is that the flat-bed seats will have sliding doors, wireless device chargers and amped-up storage features.