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Business class: Luxury in the sky
Season 1 · Episode 5

Business class: Luxury in the sky

Quartz Obsession · Quartz

November 2, 202125m 4s

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Show Notes

Bigger seat, more legroom, even silk pajamas: Flying business class comes with major perks for travelers. It’s also crucial to the entire airline business model. But given the seats’ outsized carbon footprint, how ethical is it to keep flying business class?

Photo by Eric Helgas; styling by Alex Citrin-Safadi

Transcript: https://qz.com/2077489