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    Qatar Airways just unveiled an upgrade to the world's best business class. See inside the new QSuite.

    By Pete Syme,Taylor Rains,

    23 hours ago

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    A Qatar Airways flight attendant and a QSuite configured as a double bed.
    • Qatar Airways unveiled the QSuite Next Gen on Monday.
    • It has a new face-to-face window seating configuration.
    • Plus, the beds are wider and longer.

    Qatar Airways unveiled an upgraded version of QSuite, its business-class product, at the Farnborough Airshow on Monday.

    "We're happy and sad at the same time," said CEO Badr Mohammed Al Meer . "Happy to know that something we developed years ago is still the benchmark in our industry, and sad because we were expecting someone else to come and raise the benchmark."

    "However, our team decided to take matters in their own hands," he added. "They have decided to come and raise the benchmark once again."

    The Doha-based carrier won Skytrax's best airline and best business class awards in June. QSuite Next Gen aims to build on that success with wider suites and a new face-to-face seating configuration.

    Qatar Airway's unveiling of its new business class was a hotly anticipated event at the Farnborough Airshow.
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    A crowd gathered to hear CEO Badr Mohammed Al Meer.
    At 58.6 inches tall, the sliding-door suites are 2 inches higher for increased privacy.
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    The aisle of the model.
    There is a new face-to-face seating configuration for window seats.
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    The face-to-face configuration is new in the updated QSuite design.
    It means that you can sit opposite a friend or loved one while also enjoying a view of the skies.
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    A first-person view of the new seating configuration.
    ... Or the articulating 22-inch, 4k OLED screen can be repositioned as a privacy divider.
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    The monitor repositions as the privacy divider.
    The suites have two touchscreen control panels that control the seat position and ambient mood lighting.
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    The QSuite Next Gen suites have two touchscreens.
    Plus a wireless charging dock, an electrical outlet, a USB-A port, and a USB-C port.
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    Amenities, pamphlets, and a wireless charging port.
    The QSuite Next Gen also features the quad for the center of the cabin.
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    A quad option is also available on the upgrade QSuite
    The curved black tables looked sleeker than the current QSuite.
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    The QSuite Next Gen quad configuration.

    Read more: I toured Qatar Airways' luxurious Airbus A350 complete with the 'world's best business class' and was impressed by its comfort and attention to detail

    With the upgrade, the double bed is more spacious, as each bed is four-and-a-half inches wider and one inch longer.
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    A double bed set up.
    And each seat is two inches wider.
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    A QSuite Next Gen seat.
    The bi-fold dining table pops out from the center.
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    The dining table pulls out from the center.
    The QSuite Next Gen is expected to be fitted on the upcoming Boeing 777X.
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    Qatar Airways flight attendants at the QSuite Next Gen unveiling.

    Boeing's newest plane is already 5 years late and costing billions: Why the 777X is so important

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