{"id":89991,"date":"2026-10-03T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89991"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:11:59","slug":"no-brainer-growing-trend-of-chinese-tourists-seeking-luxury-on-business-class-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89991","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No brainer\u2019: Growing trend of Chinese tourists seeking luxury on business-class flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/12\/945f5040-d2dd-4a4a-ad64-d99ec4ff0e67_2f6c8e50.jpg?itok=wb1pySAr&amp;v=1789198480\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Business-class <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">flights<\/span>, once largely the domain of company reps on paid trips, are becoming more popular among <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">tourists in China<\/span> who do not mind spending a bit extra for a comfortable ride from start to finish, industry insiders said.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Businesspeople once occupied 90 per cent of the spacious seats, but have lost that edge to leisure travellers who can buy their way out of economy class but not into first class, said Wong Hong, director general of the 18-member Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cNow you see families, couples and retirees,\u201d Wong said. \u201cThe rising profile of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">young travellers<\/span> and the upper middle-class segment has some appetite for premium travel.\u201d<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Industry-wide data shows the share of Chinese fliers choosing premium economy or above rose from 10 per cent in 2023 to 10.8 per cent last year, and 14.8 per cent on long routes outside East Asia, said Subramania Bhatt, CEO of the marketing and technology firm China Trading Desk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3367287\/no-brainer-growing-trend-chinese-tourists-seeking-luxury-business-class-flights?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business-class flights, once largely the domain of company reps on paid trips, are becoming more popular among tourists in China who do not mind spending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[31034,31035,107,4804,3538,3656,385,5593,7400],"class_list":["post-89991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-brainer","tag-businessclass","tag-chinese","tag-flights","tag-growing","tag-luxury","tag-seeking","tag-tourists","tag-trend","wpcat-4840-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}