Is this not what a lot of people have been asking for? People want a reason to fly CO for more than 75k miles, and have better benefits for doing so. It would make the Platinum Elite pool smaller, and in return CO might kick in some extra privileges to being Platinum.

I have been reading some trip reports on another airliners dot net site. They happen to have a true international 1st class, and there are MANY things that we could integrate into our BF product. There are many things you can say about CO, however they do listen to FF, and to a lesser extent employees (which I still give them credit for, not many airlines do). I will send an e-mail off stating the little things that we could change, that will in turn prove to be big changes to the customer. (and after reading about a couple trip reports in international 1st class, I am ALL FOR us trying to implement it).

I realize that a true 1st class product would only be limited to plane types, but I think we could do it. Put 1st class on our 777 and 787 A/C, as we only do/will fly them to "important" places (and this will change after us joining Star). There is no reason (other than the bean counters not thinking it will happen) for us to not do a TRUE 1st class. It would be inspiring for the F/A's to know we had a product that competed with the "Asian carriers".

I will end this post now, however I truly believe that we COULD compete with the best in the world, something no domestic legacy carrier can say. We do truly have a team of employees that are willing to bring us to the next step. It will take the FF to convince the management that it is something companies are willing to pay for though.

Only time will tell.