When Qantas released pictures of their new first class I was not impressed. Since my
first first class flight with Air NZ, I've been lucky enough to try some very nice first class products, as well as some not so nice ones. (Eg
Emirates A345,
Singapore 747 and
77W and
leased from Malaysian 747,
Lufthansa 747 and
A340,
Qantas 747,
Thai, and
United 747). The impression I got from the pictures was a nice product, better than the current Qantas first class (on 747), but not as good as I'd hoped. Perhaps upper quartile rather than top notch.
I'm happy to say the pictures do make it seem worse than it is. Unfortunately this is no leading first class product either, but I guess that is deliberate strategy on Qantas' part.
... to be continued ...