Readers familiar with the European commercial aviation industry will know that most airlines’ short-haul business class
products are designed, first and foremost, with flexibility in mind. Indeed, the majority of the continent’s carriers tend to block out the middle seats of the first few rows of their planes in order to give passengers a more spacious experience while optimising flexibility for differing premium loads.
While this is a perfectly enjoyable way of flying for a couple of hours across Europe, critics highlight its ergonomic inferiority when compared to the four-abreast recliners found in short-haul and domestic first class on North American airlines. This is an especially pressing matter when it comes to longer flights on narrowbody twinjets, such as to the Middle East, but now, Eurowings
has devised a solution.
Introducing Eurowings’ Premium BIZ Seating
As announced earlier today in a statement released by the airline, Eurowings, a German low-cost carrier that forms part of the wider Lufthansa Group
, is set to trial a new business class seat that is more reminiscent of the equivalent North American offering. Pictured above and known as Premium Biz, these spacious recliners will be rolled out in November 2025 on the route from Berlin to Dubai.
According to Cirium, an aviation analytics company, Eurowings will fly daily from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Dubai International (DXB) this November, with 15 round trips also penciled in between the German capital city and Dubai World Central (DWC). With these flights lasting in excess of six hours, the extra comfort will certainly be appreciated. Jens Bischof, the CEO of Eurowings, explained that:
“With our new Premium BIZ seat, we offer business travellers and holidaymakers a completely new level of comfort on medium-haul flights. More privacy and a significantly enhanced feel-good atmosphere make longer flights noticeably more pleasant. We are thus setting a new standard in our market segment and clearly positioning Eurowings as Europe’s leading value airline.”
Examining The Key Facts & Figures
The aircraft type that Eurowings will be trialing its new Premium BIZ seating on will be the Airbus
A320neo, as its flights between Berlin and Dubai are exclusively operated by this next-generation narrowbody. The airline notes that there will be eight of these Geven recliners on each aircraft, laid out in two four-abreast rows.
According to a social media post by German aviation journalist Andreas Spaeth, they will offer 39 inches of seat pitch, and each of them will weigh 30 kg (66 lbs).
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Eurowings’ Premium Offerings On Berlin – Dubai Flights From November 2025 |
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Class |
Perks |
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Premium BIZ |
Four-abreast recliner seats |
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BIZ Class |
Six-abreast rows with extra legroom and a blocked middle seat |
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SMART |
Six-abreast rows with extra legroom |
With the rollout of these new seats, Eurowings is promising “adjustable backrests, ergonomic design, generous upholstery, (…) [and] significantly more comfort and privacy than is usual in today’s medium-haul jets.” They will be bookable on the November flights from August as one of three different premium options available on the services in question. These are detailed in the table embedded above.
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Eurowings’ Airbus A320neo Fleet In A Nutshell
According to present fleet data made available by Planespotters.net, Eurowings currently has seven examples of the modern Airbus A320neo
twinjet at its disposal. These next-generation narrowbodies are just 2.6 years old on average, and most of them feature stickers with the slogan ‘Make Change Fly.’ The only exception to this rule is D-AENE, which instead features a special ‘Yes To Europe’ livery, which was devised to encourage people to vote in the European Parliament elections.
aeroLOPA shows that, pre-reconfiguration, Eurowings’ A320neos currently have 180 seats onboard. As is customary onboard European short-haul narrowbody twinjets, the first few rows can be designated as business class by blocking the middle seats.
The exact location of the divide can be flexibly determined depending on the levels of economy and business class demand for a given flight. Going forward, however, Eurowings is looking to move away from this much-maligned strategy, with its new Premium BIZ seats being an exciting step forward ahead of the arrival of its first Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft (with “fundamentally redefined” cabins) in 2027.
