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I try to stay abreast of anything that makes traveling as a throuple / triad more appealing and dang this new " 3 person suite " from Swiss Airlines sure looks nice! Basically they're selling you the center, 2-person suite along with the single seat across the aisle. Their new Allegris interiors only have one row of First Class suites, so I think the idea is that the aisle space between the two suites is yours. I guess the staff must all be forced to use the aisle between 1K and 1E?  layout of the 3-person suite In all our travels I think the most special moment in the sky was when the BA First purser set up an empty seat so my husband and I could dine together. But like once the meal was done, I was happy to go back to our individual seats and generally not be in each other's way. I mention this because: one, you wouldn't really be able to have a 3 people dining together experience; and two, I don't know that I'd want to be fidgeting on a video game while...

Other than the middle eastern carriers, the international First Class of the 90s and 00s has largely vanished in favor of lie-flat Business Class.  Lately we've seen some airlines installing a few extra-special Business Class seats that they can sell for a premium (eg, JetBlue's Mint Studio , Virgin's Retreat Suite , Singapore's A380 couples seats ).  Taiwanese luxury airline startup Starlux decided to do this on their new planes, but branded this one row of seats "First Class" and are asking 3 times the price for them versus their normal Business seats. (For real, $19,000 round trip LAX-Taipei versus $6000). I rolled my eyes. No amount of Krug and caviar could justify that. Furthermore, they aren't comping people into the seats or offering discounted upgrades to them if they're going to go out empty.  But then i saw this nugget:  Now this is a seldom-seen perk that sounds amazing – never having to enter the normal airport terminal at all . Having e...