Originally Posted by
stimpy
In today's New York Times, there is an article on US domestic first class, and another on the top international first class options.
The domestic article is about how bad it has gotten, but the writer missed the opportunity to note that 9/11 changed everything. It seems though that he actually took a lot of domestic first flights and was mostly accurate. -----
The article does state "Later, 9/11, rising fuel costs and the recession all continued to pummel the airlines, forcing a protracted era of cost-cutting. "
So 9/11 does get a passing mention.