STANSTED”S mini North Atlantic business class war continues to warm up with Maxjet introducing a four times per week service to Washington on Friday 17 March and Eos launching Club 48 (48 club seats don”t forget) with amongst its many benefits up to $800 credit on any airline. The products are in fact entirely different, Maxjet a comfortable 2 + 2 + 2 ride across the Atlantic, exceptional legroom and first generation (nearly) flat seats. A maximum of 102 can be carried. Eos is more of an enlarged single aisle executive jet with the latest in pod seating, 47 others at the most, and the use of what is probably the best lounge at JFK, that of Emirates in T4. Maxjet is coming in with an introductory ”599 return fare to Washington and Eos has a restricted offer of ”950 each way. At Heathrow the airlines have been watching events at the Essex airport and whilst the numbers involved are relatively insignificant, they are diluting the market. Booking well ahead BA now comes in at just under ”2,000, Virgin Atlantic at ”2,350 and the US airlines around ”1,800, all return in the named business class.
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