Main Facts The definition of luxury at 35,000 feet is undergoing a profound structural evolution. On a transatlantic flight from Chicago to London aboard American Airlines flight AA86, the defining characteristic of the carrier’s newly introduced business class was not merely the inclusion of a sliding privacy door—a feature that…
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Main Facts The golden rule of commercial aviation for more than two decades was straightforward: if a business-class seat converted into a fully flat bed, it met the baseline criteria for modern long-haul travel. Today, that binary metric is obsolete. On a recent May flight from Chicago to London aboard…