Originally Posted by
uastarflyer
UNITED 747s never rolled out anything called BusinessFirst. As they are equipped with a separate INTL First cabin and INTL Business class cabin.
Indeed, PMUA, well before merger. UA tried to reintroduce LAX-HKG (OK, they did, it just didn't last) and got my first ride on UP thanks to $500 upgrade (each way) at checkin desk.
Originally Posted by
warrenw
Wait, what? Then why did my pre-Polaris business class tickets say BusinessFirst on them?
Or are you saying BusinessFirst was a Continental thing?
Originally Posted by
luv2ctheworld
BusinessFirst is a CO generated marketing spin for when they tried to make people think business was basically as good as first... and slowly remove international first from all aircraft (slowly; like death by a thousand cuts).
IIRC CO introduced Biz1st when they unveiled lie flat Biz seat. They may well have been first ones to do this for Biz in US.
And Int'l 1st is going away not just at UA, even mighty LH has cut back many a/c simply to Biz, though so far not eliminating it like UA plans on doing.