A great article on business class travel

This article,is an article that I have considered writing many times and it’s done better than I probably could.  Simpleflying.com is a great website for air travel nerds (and a huge potential timesuck) and they clearly have some ‘ins’ which shows up in the research in this article.   As great as this article is, it has an intrinsic flaw, it’s out of date.  At only 6 months old one of the airlines mentioned here is now gone (with details on its successor still forming) the article is also inaccurate at the features of two of the airlines mentioned.   

The Travel Industry reflects the world, and as such, it is always changing.

I sometimes get the feeling when I’m helping people with their first/business/premium class purchases that I’m beleaguering a point.  It may be a very fancy seat on an airplane, but at the end of the day, it’s just a seat on an aircraft, right?  

No.  The fact of the matter is that it’s possible to spend more for some of those seats on some of those trips than one might pay for a used car.  When people are spending that kind of money, I want to do my best to make sure they understand what they will likely get.   Likely, because the airline industry moves fast.  If an airline has a broken aircraft on a day with lots of sold seats and they have a choice between sending an inferior aircraft or sending nothing they will do what they have.  

Things are always worth a simple double check.