{"id":4724,"date":"2022-05-07T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2022\/05\/07\/how-business-class-has-changed-over-the-last-40-years\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:18:17","slug":"how-business-class-has-changed-over-the-last-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2022\/05\/07\/how-business-class-has-changed-over-the-last-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How Business Class Has Changed Over The Last 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways was the first airline to launch a fully flat business class seat, at the turn of the Millenium. In the 20 years before that (but especially during its first 10 years, in the 1980s), business class was just a glorified version of economy. Now, of course, it\u2019s all suites and sliding doors. Here\u2019s how the transition occurred; how business class has changed over the last 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s rewind for a second and strap ourselves back into the 1990s (don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll eventually go back even further). Back then business class looked very different. Business class had only been around for just over a decade in 1990,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dmarge.com\/2022\/05\/business-class-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways was the first airline to launch a fully flat business class seat, at the turn of the Millenium. In the 20 years before that (but especially during its first 10 years, in the 1980s), business class was just a glorified version of economy. Now, of course, it\u2019s all suites and sliding doors. Here\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}