In 2019, Japanese Star Alliance carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) launched an all new first and business class product. In this post, I’d like to take an updated look at ANA’s progress with installing these new cabins, especially with the IATA summer 2026 travel schedule officially kicking off as of today (which is when airlines often make changes to their schedule).
All Nippon Airways’ new first class, known as “The Suite,” is phenomenal. The hard product as such doesn’t look that amazing, but it’s a huge improvement over the old product. First class has eight very comfortable suites, each of which is functionally designed and private. Personally I consider this to be among the world’s best first class products, thanks largely to ANA’s top notch soft product.
Unfortunately ANA doesn’t have concrete plans to reconfigure the remaining 777-300ERs in the near future, so don’t expect this product’s footprint to grow much for the time being (which is disappointing, since it has been so long, and we’re just talking about three planes). ANA is expected to eventually take delivery of new 777-9s, which will likely feature this product (or something even better), though that’s still potentially years down the road.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
