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The World’s Best First Class Airlines
One Mile At A Time ^ | 08/08/18

Posted on 08/10/2018 3:49:40 PM PDT by Simon Green

...So this post is an update with my new rankings of the world’s 10 best first class products. It goes without saying that this is entirely subjective, so it’s perfectly reasonable if others disagree with me.

Let me also emphasize that I’ve actually flown every single first class product I rank (and paid for the ticket, either in cash or miles), and have flown almost every first class product in the world (the only airline I haven’t flown in first class is Kuwait Airways). So I’m not going off any marketing bullets with these rankings, but rather my firsthand experiences. If you’d like to see more of my trip reports, check out the trip report index.

With that out of the way, here are what I consider to be the 10 best first class products, starting with the best:

1. Emirates First Class 777-300ER

2. Air France First Class 777-300ER

3. Garuda Indonesia First Class 777-300ER

4. Singapore Suites A380

5. Etihad First Class A380

6. Cathay Pacific First Class 777-300ER

7. Japan Airlines First Class 777-300ER

8. Lufthansa First Class A380 Or 747-8

9. Swiss First Class 777-300ER

10. All Nippon Airways First Class 777-300ER


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1 posted on 08/10/2018 3:49:40 PM PDT by Simon Green
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Aeroflot where they still hire and fire based on looks.

But I believe they only go up to business class.

2 posted on 08/10/2018 3:52:53 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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#6


3 posted on 08/10/2018 3:53:52 PM PDT by onedoug
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I’d love to fly Emirates first class or one of it’s sister airlines with my wife before we die. I marvel at the pictures I see of it. Compared to the reality of the sardine can experience on American carriers it seems like another world.


4 posted on 08/10/2018 3:54:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Not a single US carrier.....


5 posted on 08/10/2018 3:56:38 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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I’m flying Cathay Pacific first class in January. Really looking forward to it.

6 posted on 08/10/2018 3:57:34 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: Snickering Hound
How about when Southwest had stewardesses who looked like this, lol?
7 posted on 08/10/2018 3:58:27 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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I’m flying cattle to St. Louis in a couple of weeks. Been a few years since last I flew but I’m really looking forward to the champagne and the caviar. Well, OK, I’m hoping if the stews have a windup like Juan Marichal I’ll be able to catch a sack of mustard pretzels in my teeth...


8 posted on 08/10/2018 4:01:11 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I saw a first class seat once when the flight attendant got a little sloppy with screening curtain.


9 posted on 08/10/2018 4:02:19 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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To: clintonh8r
Not a single US carrier.....

American carriers where a surly battleaxe threatens even paying 1st class passengers...

10 posted on 08/10/2018 4:02:33 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Simon Green; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
This airline seemed to get it right.


11 posted on 08/10/2018 4:03:56 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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I’ve just taken my first flight in 5 years recently, so I’ve been obsessed with airport documentaries and stuff about 1st class flying.

Just amazing the options that are out there if you have the cash. Accommodations like Emirates would get me to travel a lot more, although I would still prefer domestic carriers and I can only deal with domestic destinations.

But that type of comfort on a cross-country flight? Oh yeah!


12 posted on 08/10/2018 4:04:56 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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The cabin is so elegant, and rather than offering suites with doors, they instead have curtains you can pull around your suite.

Kinda like those hospital curtains that go around the bed so the nurses can insert a catheter in semi-privacy.

13 posted on 08/10/2018 4:07:05 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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To: clintonh8r

Jet Blues, Spirit, US Air did not make the cut.


14 posted on 08/10/2018 4:07:11 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: libertylover
I saw a first class seat once when the flight attendant got a little sloppy with screening curtain.

Have you seen this commercial? It’s a perfect match to what you just said!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0hPIH75iU

15 posted on 08/10/2018 4:07:39 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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but the cabins are elegant (in a German way),

I think this means you can eat off the floors (in a German way) and not injest a single bacterial organism.

16 posted on 08/10/2018 4:16:41 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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That bed and seat belt on the Swiss Air reminds me of my last visit to the cath lab.


17 posted on 08/10/2018 4:19:19 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My sister and her kids have flown them a few times and speak very highly of them.


18 posted on 08/10/2018 4:21:25 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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their dine on demand menu with all kinds of great options (including caviar).

Can you substitute a hamburger instead of the tofu without an upcharge?

19 posted on 08/10/2018 4:22:37 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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If ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.

(But I do like Douglas planes, too).


20 posted on 08/10/2018 4:23:21 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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