Since discovering FT, I've taken my wife to Europe three times, in First Class every time. Now, she's not the world's most sophisticated traveller; for that matter, neither are most of my co-workers. Many of them have never even flown domestic First!

Anyhow, in order to impress upon her the uniqueness of what we were doing, (and to drive home the point about what a cool, talented guy she had married) I asked her:

"Do you have any idea of how few people have actually done this?"
"No. How many?"
" ......Uh....Well...It's a rhetorical question! Not many!"

So ... would anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many different people have actually flown transatlantic in First Class? (The guys who do it every week only count as one each.)

I'm guessing less than a million, but that's just a WAG. Anyone have any hard numbers? How about transpacific?