About Business Class Journal

Business Class Journal is an independent publication covering the premium end of business travel — long-haul business and first class cabins, airport lounges, the hotels and clubs that business travellers actually use, and the loyalty programs that price the trade-offs.

We started the publication in 2023 because the existing premium-travel coverage felt either captured by the carriers it was reviewing or written in a register more appropriate to a leisure trip than a working week. We wanted something closer in tone to the airline trade press but written for the passenger, and rigorous about the things that actually matter on a working trip: the time from kerb to seat, the punctuality of the route, the actual width of the bed, the actual quality of the meal.

Every product reviewed on Business Class Journal is paid for in cash or with our own miles. We do not accept hosted stays, comp flights, or paid placements. Every review names the specific flight number, hotel room number, or lounge visit date, and we publish our scoring methodology and category weights alongside our verdicts.

We currently maintain a small editorial team based across London, New York, and Hong Kong, with regular contributors in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Singapore. Our editor-in-chief is Mara Whitfield.

We publish a weekly RSS feed at /rss.xml and a sitemap at /sitemap-index.xml.

Editorial principles

Independence. No comp travel, no paid placements, no advertising disguised as editorial. We pay for everything we cover.

Specificity. Where a review says “the bed is firm,” we mean we measured it. Where a review names a number, that number is real and we will tell you how we got it.

Disclosure. If a writer holds elite status with a carrier they are reviewing, we say so. If a writer has a personal connection to a hotel, the review is reassigned.