Originally Posted by
jimrpa
Actually, much older than that. Delta eliminated their International First Class in the mid-late 1990s, when they introduced BusinessElite. I'm not sure if NorthWest had an International First Class product.
PMNW had international FC until sometime around 2000. It was phased out around the time that WBC was introduced by NW and KLM. Like DL's BE product, it was promoted as being somewhere between business class and first class. IFC lasted longest on the TPAC 747s: Upper deck on the 747-200 and nose section on 747-400s. For a while, the old IFC seats remained and could be reserved only by elites.