Qatar Airways now serves caviar in business class

Private business class suites with sliding doors which become double beds, a restaurant-grade à la carte menu featuring ‘dine on demand’ meals, Taittinger and Gosset Champagne… there’s no doubt Qatar Airways has elevated the business class experience of new heights of luxury.

Now the Gulf airline is adding even more lustre to its five-star crown by serving caviar, that quintessential first class indulgence, in business class.

Those tiny pearls of salty roe are a delicacy more often associated with first class – but the same was once said for lie-flat beds, private suites, over-sized video screens and most other attributes which have steadily trickled down into the business class cabin.

Starting August 15, caviar moves to the other side of the curtain with Qatar Airways’ business class caviar service.

Qatar Airways’ new business class caviar service.

Available as a standalone option from the ‘dine on demand’ menu or as part of your full multi-course meal, the business class caviar service will be offered on over a dozen Qatar Airways routes to and from Doha starting August 15 – including Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas and Houston.

Travellers can look forward to enjoying 15 grams of Baeri caviar imported from the Caspian Sea, complemented by slices of silky Balik-style smoked salmon plus accompaniments of creme fraiche, finely-chopped chives, crumbled hard-boiled eggs and a lemon wedge.

Given the scale at which airlines exercise their purchasing power, this could make Qatar Airways the world’s largest airline customer for some high-quality caviar providore.

As previously reported, Qatar Airways will roll out a refined ‘Qsuite Next Gen’ business class on board its new Boeing 777-9 jets – which the airline says are due in late 2025 – with a new first class suite to follow on 777-9s assigned to premium routes to Europe, the US and Asia.