Latest A330 Qantas arrival heralds cabin refit

Qantas to standardise A330 cabin configurations? Michael Gisick

With the arrival of Qantas’s latest A330-200, VH-EBV Kangaroo Island, the airline announced plans to move all weekday flights between Sydney-Perth and Melbourne-Perth to the Airbus widebody. But that announcement, in turn, has focused attention on the discrepancy in the business class offering aboard the airline’s A330s.

The Kangaroo Island version, unveiled in late November, has received decidedly mixed reviews – which is a nice way of putting it. The rub is a business class middle seat covered with a plastic platform optimistically designated as ‘work space’. That configuration sits uncomfortably in the Qantas fleet alongside international-configured A330s offering lie-flat Skybed sleepers.