Tiny Pretzels. Big Conversations
Business Class© is a 2-hour experience for communities, professional teams, students, and random strangers, set aboard a mock airplane flight.
Using the airplane as a metaphor for our society — with crammed rows in Economy Class and luxurious socks in First — passengers take part in a facilitated dialogue experience that moves from the departure lounge and seat allocation to onboard drinks service and landing.
The flight offers a rare and playful opportunity to examine our own assumptions and behaviours. At 35,000 metaphorical feet we explore the broader norms that shape our community, workplaces, and society with strangers, colleagues and neighbours alike.
Together, outside the confines of echo chambers & performative roundtables, we connect with “the other” and take a crucial first step in systems change: trust-building. That phase—so often skipped or rushed—is where transformation, collective action and hope begin.
Check Your Privilege At The Gate!*
*Charges May Apply.
“I’d recommend Business Class to any team ready to elevate their trust and connection, or any group that needs to break through to that next level of collaboration.”
Business Class is simply genius. It’s the perfect vehicle (excuse the pun) to discuss the most pressing issues of the day, whether that be in an institution, society, the environment… it shines a light on power, privilege and values.”
Business Class was life-changing"
Wow, consider me mesmerized by Captain Schutt’s response, intuition, and creativity. Really just shaking my head at where boarding flights with strangers can take you…”
"In the shadow of overwhelming challenges, Business Class offers more than comfort — it’s a place to (re)connect with ‘the other’ and let hope grow."
Business Class is a great experience to get out of our own little window seat view. When you are challenged and invited to a new reality suddenly many world views and truths can become different and be refreshed.
We All Have Baggage!
At a time when people are looking for ways to (re)connect, participants can expect small-group discussion, storytelling and individual reflection.
Professional groups can expect fresh perspective, greater clarity, and a renewed sense of collegial alignment. These shifts are shaped by the ideas, instincts, and underlying truths that rarely surface openly, but quietly influence every decision, dynamic, and direction a team and organization (and society) take.
All passengers disembark with renewed connections, fresh perspectives, a lavender-scented eye mask*, deeper empathy, and a stronger sense of action toward building a better world to come. No performing or acting is required, and passengers are invited to share as much or as little as they feel comfortable.
*First (and Maybe Business) Passengers only. We operate a no complaints policy.
Our Captain Becky Schutt (BS Airlines) is a former Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, where she established the world's first MBA program in Arts & Culture. She has worked as a strategist, program director and facilitator in six continents and over 20 countries from Brazil and Egypt to South Africa, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Raise Your Armrest. Lower Your Guard.
Past participants and frequent flyers share their experiences on our testimonial page — simply summed up by one as "The flight we all need to take to find our common future."
