{"id":344813,"date":"2026-01-08T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-upgrade-business-class-emirates\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:00:18","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-upgrade-to-business-class-on-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=344813","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does It Cost To Upgrade To Business Class On Emirates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2047867\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-etihad-carrier-flies-more-destinations\/\" >Emirates is the largest of the two flag carriers of the UAE (the other being Etihad)<\/a><\/span>. According to Skytrax&#8217;s 2025 ranking, Emirates is considered the fourth-best airline in the world overall (after Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Cathay Pacific). However, Emirates falls to a still-elite 11th place when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldairlineawards.com\/worlds-best-business-class-airlines-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Skytrax&#8217;s best business class ranking<\/a>, being ranked after Virgin Atlantic but before EVA Air and Qantas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of upgrading to business class generally costs a couple of thousand dollars, varying dramatically due to contributing factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1320,919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-business-class","category-emirates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344813\/revisions\/344814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}