Originally Posted by QRC3288

Just fyi, there isn't such thing as an "international" first class on CX. There's F class, or there isn't. Three class airplanes have first, business and economy (or soon on a new aircraft config: business, economy+ and economy). Two class airplanes have business and economy. They don't sell shabby looking business class seats as "first class". The differences on CX are between long-haul (LH) and short-haul, the latter usually not giving you pajamas, caviar and Krug champagne, but still the same hard product and superior food choices nonetheless. If they don't swap the aircraft out on you to a two-class airplane, you absolutely will have paid business pax behind you getting a different level of service, just as there will be economy pax behind them with yet another level of service.

The "international" for US carriers is an American invention (I'm one myself) because the "First Class" name is such a sham on most domestic flights (despite the aircraft usually being two class, they still call it "first"). So "international" became an adjective-like descriptor to differentiate between the various (usually inferior) "first class" products American carriers provide. Should be more appropriately renamed "Not As Bad As Our Economy Class, but Not Much Better Either".