Business class travel helps post-pandemic airline sales take off

Analysis: the front of the cabin is looking more like 2019 as business travellers return and pandemic savers splash out

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?