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The ups and downs of flying business on Singapore Airlines

The ups and downs of flying business on Singapore Airlines

Great food and privacy in a large bed – if you can find a spot for your feet.

Ingrid Fuary-WagnerExplainer editor

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The seat | 24K on the A380, which is a window seat at the back of the cabin, just in front of an emergency exit and toilets. The (leather) seat is 63.5 centimetres wide and 198 centimetres long when turned into a flat bed.

The cabin layout (78 seats in a 1-2-1 formation) makes the business class seats on the A380 feel super private. It’s only when I stand up at the end of the flight with the rest of the passengers that I realise the cabin has been (almost) at capacity. I only noticed about three other passengers get up during the flight.

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Singapore Airlines has four flights from Sydney a day. This article previously reported that it had three.

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Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
Ingrid Fuary-WagnerExplainer editorIngrid Fuary-Wagner is the AFR's explainer editor, based in Sydney. She previously wrote about property and before that was news editor at Domain. Connect with Ingrid on Twitter. Email Ingrid at ingrid.fuary-wagner@afr.com

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