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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Business class travel helps post-pandemic airline sales take off

British Airways Airbus A320 landing
BA’s boss, Sean Doyle, said business traffic was 2.5 times higher in March than in January. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

It was proclaimed moribund, if not doomed, just a year ago. But now, is business class air travel taking off again? British Airways’ owner IAG, forecasting a return to profit this year, said that a strong recovery in business bookings was driving the recovery.

In a world where half the City can no longer be bothered to get on the Northern line to return to the office, and bankers begrudge the cost of a train from Surrey, how can airlines claim to be pulling this off?

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