As I was browsing the Qatar website I paid a bit more attention to the page footer then I normally do, where they display a number of Skytrax awards, including the World Best Business Class Airline, which most frequent flyers would probably agree with.

This prompted me to check the Skytrax website for the best first class airlines, and no much surprise there (albeit I would have expected AirFrance La premiere to be a bit higher), and I was surprised that BA was ranked 7th, above both Ethiad, Cathay and Qatar, which I found it at odds with reports of First Class service for the last two years on these forums as well as the general views about Qatar, Cathay and Ethiad (inc the suite) on here and other forums.

What are your thoughts? Where would you see BA First against the competition? Here is the 2021 ranking for
reference:

1 Singapore Airlines

2 Lufthansa

3 Emirates

4 ANA All Nippon Airways

5 Air France

6 Swiss International Air Lines

7 British Airways

8 Japan Airlines

9 Etihad Airways

10 Korean Air

11 Qatar Airways

12 Cathay Pacific Airways

13 Qantas Airways

14 Saudi Arabian Airlines

15 Oman Air

16 China Southern Airlines

17 Garuda Indonesia

18 Thai Airways

19 Asiana Airlines

20 Air China