Quarterly indices, route deep-dives, and seat-product tracking from the FlightGap research desk. Free to read. No signup required.
Apex Suite per-hour cost ranged $204 to $268 over 90 days. Tuesday and Wednesday departures held the lowest median at $214/hr. Friday peaked at $268/hr.
On flights over 12 hours overnight, lie-flat per-hour cost beats economy time-of-arrival cost on 8 of 10 sampled routes. Translation: paying for the bed is cheaper than paying for the lost workday.
Three new Etihad routes added Apex Suite product. Live monitoring resumed for the refit fleet. Two retirements (older 777-300ER configs) come off the map next quarter.
Median uplift on the 12 highest-volume transatlantic routes. Shoulder-season tracker for the cheapest two weeks to fly business each quarter.
New 1-2-1 lie-flat routes scheduled to start service. Includes Ethiopian's new A350-1000 deployment to North America and Saudia's revised Riyadh hub.
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