I toured Qatar's new Qsuite business class, which passengers are still waiting to fly. These are the 7 best upgrades.

Qatar Airways hoped to debut the next generation of its famous Qsuite business class last year — with lockable drawers and two-person window suites — but it still hasn’t flown a single passenger.

The Doha-based airline unveiled its reinvented Qsuite at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow in 2024, promising a new level of luxury for its Boeing 777-9 jets by 2025.

The 777-9 is the larger variant of the 777X.

But Boeing’s new widebody still isn’t certified.

The 777X is seven years behind its original schedule, while Boeing continues to grapple with safety, quality, production, and supply-chain problems.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said at a September Morgan Stanley conference that the 777-9 was still on track for 2027, but an engine issue discovered earlier this year could slightly push the timeline. “I don’t see that as a major challenge for us, but we still got a lot in front of us on the flight test program,” Ortberg said. “Not done until we’re done.” Neither Boeing nor Qatar Airways responded to a request for comment from Business Insider.

While passengers continue to fly in the original Qsuite — introduced nearly a decade ago and already considered one of the world’s best airline business class cabins — I toured Next Gen at the Arabian Travel Market trade show in Dubai in September.

Qatar Airways Group CEO Hamad Ali Al-Khater told Euronews the same month that Qsuite Next Gen is due in summer 2027, though the airline has not announced any specific routes.

Upgrades include new combinable suites, improved tech, and smarter storage.

Seeing these features up close revealed interesting differences that weren’t immediately obvious.

Here are the seven things that stood out most on the Qsuite Next Gen.