Originally Posted by
pantanal
You know what they say about opinions. Everyone is entitled to one. We just don't have to agree.
BTW several airlines don't fill their first class for many reasons other than the comfort level . Just flew Lufthansa First from Delhi to Fra on the New 747 8 last week. Now that is an amazing first class but only 3 people and eight seats. Attendants told me that flight has been going over 50% empty in first class. I doubt that is because the first class is not good enough
By virtue of a simple quantitative analysis, 1/4 is 25% while 3/8 is 37.5% and as you were told by LH cabin crew, LH F has been going on average with ~50% load factor, which is twice as much as JJ's 25%, so while there is clearly a lower global demand for F, passengers are unquestionably more likely to pay for this class-of-service on a carrier with a great F product like LH than on one with a so-so product like JJ.
Further, given that LH is making it very difficult to redeem F awards, its 50% load factor is being made up of primarily all revenue passengers, whereas JJ's lower load factor may consist primarily of F awards, e.g., my last CDG-GIG-EZE trip where I was on an award F ticket and I was the sole F pax on both legs. Same with my GRU-MIA flight last month (though I was in J in the row right behind the F cabin), I overheard the sole F pax on the flight telling the cabin crew how having a private cabin to himself was worth the many miles he had spent for the ticket.