About Flat Flights
We track business class and first class flights so you don't have to. Our job is simple: find lie-flat seats at the lowest price, rank them honestly, and link you straight to the booking page.
How we rate airlines
Every airline on Flat Flights gets a rating from 1 to 10. This isn't a popularity contest — it's a weighted assessment of what actually matters when you're flying business class:
- 1 Seat hardware (40%) — Is it fully lie-flat? Direct aisle access? Suite doors? We check seat width, pitch, bed length, and privacy. An angled-flat seat caps at 6/10 regardless of everything else.
- 2 Soft product (25%) — Food quality, wine list, bedding, amenity kits, crew attentiveness. The things that turn a seat into an experience.
- 3 Ground experience (15%) — Lounge quality, priority boarding, chauffeur services, fast-track immigration where available.
- 4 Value (10%) — Price relative to product quality. A 9/10 airline that consistently costs €8,000 scores lower here than a 7/10 airline at €1,200.
- 5 Consistency (10%) — Same product across the fleet, or a lottery depending on aircraft? Airlines with mixed cabins (old and new seats on the same route) get penalised.
Ratings are reviewed when an airline launches a new product, changes catering, or retrofits its fleet. We don't update ratings on a schedule — we update them when something changes.
How we track prices (methodology)
Short answer: every route page shows a benchmark ("from" and "average" business class fare, round-trip, 1 adult, EUR incl. taxes) plus a live partner sample when one is available. Money routes carry an explicit "as of" date — currently September 2026.
- Benchmarks. "From" is the low end of business-cabin fares observed in
cached searches from the Aviasales / Travelpayouts Data API
(
trip_class=1, business only) and in public airline sales. "Average" is the typical fare outside sales. Our top routes are re-checked by hand and stamped with the month we last verified them. - Live sample. When you open a route page we query the same partner feed for business-class prices on that city pair. Results far below the benchmark (under 55%) are discarded because they are almost always economy fares leaking into the feed.
- Products. Seat names (Qsuite, Club Suite, Upper Class Suite, Delta One Suite, Mint, SQ A350-900ULR…) come from airline product pages and seat maps. Aircraft swaps happen, so we tell you to confirm the seat map before paying.
- Booking. Flat Flights does not sell tickets. "Search business" buttons open
Aviasales with the business cabin pre-selected (
c1) and a tracking tag so we know which page helped you. The fare you see there is the live price.
Fares move daily. Treat our numbers as a benchmark for "is this cheap for business?", not a quote. Machine-readable P0 facts: /facts.json · LLM summary: /llms.txt.
Editorial standards
We don't accept payment for reviews or ratings. Airline ratings are based on product quality alone. No airline can pay to improve their score.
Affiliate links are clearly marked. When you click a link labelled "Compare Prices" or "Get a quote", it goes to an affiliate partner. If you book through that link, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is how we keep the site free.
Affiliate relationships don't affect our content. An airline with a great product and no affiliate deal still gets a high rating. An airline with an affiliate deal and a mediocre product still gets a mediocre rating.
We correct mistakes. If we get something wrong — a seat type, a price, a hub — let us know at [email protected]. We'll fix it.
Data freshness
Money-route benchmarks show the month they were last verified (now September 2026); the live partner sample updates on every page view. Airline data (seat specs, fleet, alliances) is updated when an airline announces changes. Each guide shows its last update date.
Get in touch
Found an error? Have a suggestion? Want to work with us?
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