seat reviews qantas business class dreamliner
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Qantas’s Boeing 787‑9 Dreamliner offers a business‑class cabin that’s geared toward premium travelers on its long‑haul routes.
Business Class on the Qantas Dreamliner
- The Dreamliner carries 42 business‑class seats, each equipped with a fully flat bed.
- These seats are part of a cabin layout that also includes 28 premium‑economy seats and 166 economy seats, making the aircraft heavily weighted toward premium cabins.
- Compared with the larger A380, the Dreamliner provides a more intimate business‑class environment with fewer seats overall.
- The reduction of economy seats on the Dreamliner reflects Qantas’s strategy to focus on higher‑yield passengers on routes such as Melbourne to Los Angeles.
- On routes like Sydney to Honolulu, the Dreamliner’s business class is the dominant cabin class, as the airline has taken over from Jetstar and now offers only premium cabins.
2PAXfly QANTAS: A380 and First Class dropped from Melbourne to LAX, also 787 changes
Melbourne is losing its Qantas Airbus A380 to Los Angeles. From 25 October 2026, the airline will remove the superjumbo from the route, switching the service to a daily Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner instead. Currently, the QF93/QF94 Melbourne–Los Angeles flights operate with a mix of aircraft. The Airbus A380 runs twice a week, while the Dreamliner handles the remaining services. Under the new schedule, this will become an exclusively Dreamliner route. For travellers, that means Melbourne loses both the A380 and Qantas First Class on the trans-Pacific route. The route will now operate daily with the Boeing 787-9
2PAXfly QANTAS: Wet-leased Finnair’s AirLounge Business Class coming to Sydney to Honolulu route
The fixed Business Class seat is titled the AirLounge. It comes with the Finnair Airbus A330 aircraft that Qantas is wet-leasing from Finnair. The Scandinavian airline has a surplus of aircraft and staff now that it cannot fulfil its regular routes by flying over Russia. Russian airspace has been closed due to the war with Ukraine. Qantas wet-leased these aircraft to service its routes to Singapore and Bangkok. This additional jet will be the first to be deployed on the Sydney to Honolulu route. It won’t be wet-leased, either, meaning that Qantas pilots and cabin crew will staff the