First Class !

I flew back from New York in First Class the other day.

I must admit that in these conditions, travelling becomes a pleasure again. Flight attendants are smiling (more than in coach !), the champagne is of much better quality, so is the cognac, the wine, the food, the seat...I mean the bed.

I wish everybody could fly first, always.

Sadly it is impossible: not enough seats per plane to make it financially viable for airlines. Besides, would First Class still be First Class if there was not any coach ?

I just can't stop thinking though: over the last 30 years or so, I have the feeling that First became better and better (you even have your own individual suite on some airlines now) while coach really became worse and worse.

It got to have something to do with capitalism: get forever more to an ever smaller number of people, while increasing the number of those who get nothing...but fly coach.

One caveat: statistics apparently show that you have far less chances to survive a crash in First than if you are sitting next to the toilets in the rear of the airplane. I am not sure I consider this a sufficient incentive to fly coach...but you may.