Comments on: Wilkommen! Bienvenue! JetBlue to go Euro-style with a first class cabin?

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By: petri

petri — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:19:28 +0000

I don’t know about all the US airlines but all the First’s I’ve flown, have had basicly just leather “blocks” that look like a huge, square sofa. Not exactly something that have been designed for comfortable, longhaul flights.

Just compare them to e.g. car seats, where the engineers have actually spent some time to make them comfortable even for long drives. (And I’m not talking about the minivans

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:17:47 +0000

I agree 100% about the meals, and that the cleanliness of some first class cabins in the U.S. isn’t always the best, but that they’re uncomfortable? Really? Maybe I’ve just been lucky…

I’ll also agree that you can sit pretty much anywhere for a 2 hour flight. But since so many flights in the U.S. are longer than that, the domestic “first” seats in the U.S. are still welcome, in my book, despite their shortcomings.

By: petri

petri — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:31:57 +0000

At least the European seats are relatively new and clean, which you cannot say about the uncomfortable leather sofas in typical American “First” class. The meals are way better in Europe as well.

Another thing is that you don’t fly more than 3-4h within Europe that often, for a 2h flight it doesn’t matter where one sits.