[*]I remember only one inner NorthAmerican ticket that I fully paid for first class (that was 10 days ago the SFO-Phoenix segment (UA Shuttle first) one-way, because everthing else was sold out. The price was about $180.[*]My paid international (mostly transatlantic) business-class tickets automatically become paid first-class on NorthAmerican UA segments in two-class aircrafts (includes Shuttle).[*]My paid StarAlliance-rtw-business-class tickets automatically become paid first-class on NorthAmerican UA segments in two-class aircrafts (includes Shuttle).
[*]when the Swiss population last time voted No to United Nations-membership (only Switzerland and Vatican are not yet full members) one of the 'popular' arguments against the governements proposition was: 'we don't want to pay for UN-administrators first-.class airline-tickets' ...