Best First Class?
 

I am planning an around the world trip for our 10th anniversary and wanted opinions on the best first class.
I have flown Continental for quite a while but would be interested in any/all opinions especially relating to areas of the world (ie Maylasia is best to orient, BA to Europe, etc) and specifics as to why you like a particular airline's first class.
Thank you!

[This message has been edited by DSK (edited 04-17-2003).]

Where are you going?

Most likely:
London, Rome, Isreal, Hong Kong and Austrailia but no deffinate plans yet and we are very flexible.
By the way, dbaker, we are flying out of Austin!

[This message has been edited by DSK (edited 04-17-2003).]

This is my opinion:

NA-Europe

1. BA, Great seats, good food, great drinks and some of the best lounges.

NA-Asia

SQ or CX. Great service on both. If flying through HKG then CX for the lounge.

Europe-Asia

Tough

SQ,CX for the reasons above or BA just because I have grone to like their service style and I am British. But If I was being rational about it SQ.

No doubt you will see a lot of different answers to you question as it is all down to taste and what you have gotten used to.

If you're doing a RTW trip in F, I'd personally pick a Star Alliance ticket. Why? Sure Oneworld has Cathay Pacific -- but *A has Singapore and ANA.

Check out tfung's trip report on ANA's service, NRT-LHR for a sense of ANA. http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif

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The best F's out there: SQ, LH, NH, BA and CX.

OK all you travel savy people, thank you for your opinions so far. Please keep 'em coming. By the way, where can I find a glossery of airline abreviations?
Thanks again.

I've flown UA, CX, LH, and TG for international F class. Of these, CX was by far the best.

QL

My personal favourite is a Oneworld Round the world as it has BA AND CX AND AA AND QF, together offering the best route network there is out there! (IMHO)

Abbrvs.

BA: British Airways
SQ: Singapore
QF: Qantas
CX: Cathay Pacific
AA: American Airlines

If you are paying and cost is NOT an issue, then switch between the different carriers... nothing wrong with that.

BA/LH are VERY good for F into and out of Europe

CX/SQ are VERY good for F in and out of Asia

QF F and JAL F (newer seats) and ANA F (newer seats) is also quite good.

For your first flight from AUS take whowever to the CLOSEST gatweay city for BA or LH (or CX/SQ).

Limit your exposure to the Domestic F product (my 2 cents)


[This message has been edited by NickP 1K (edited 04-17-2003).]

Good idea to avoi domestic first, thanks.
Any other opinions?

For domestic FC to Hawaii, AQ is very nice imo.