Turkish Airlines New Business Class Seat

Turkish Airlines will from next year start to taking delivery of two new aircraft types that will further diversify their fleet. They have 25 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and 25 Airbus A350-900s on order.

Turkish is taking the opportunity to introduce an all new business class seat on these aircraft, and has revealed some details to Australian Business Traveller The layout will be an industry standard 1-2-1 (rather than the current configurations, which are up to 2-3-2 on their B777 fleet) The seat will have ‘high privacy’ The seat is still in the design stages It will feature ‘individual enclosed storage areas and 44 inch knee distance

The ‘high privacy’ sounds exciting as this may mean it will be suites with closing doors, similar to Qatar QSuites and Delta One Suites. However the Boeing 787 has a fairly narrow cabin, so the standard QSuites would not fit in this aircraft.

Qatar is designing a modified QSuite to fit into their 787s but as I have noted before, this is likely to be years away.

The ’44 inch knee distance’ could mean Turkish selects the Vantage XL seat, which is the the same seat Delta has modified (to include sliding doors) for its new flagship Delta One product.