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I am fortunate enough to travel business class with my job and when choosing a flight, I nearly always try to select an airline that only offers business and economy class such as Sabena, Delta, Austrian, Finnair, KLM and Air Canada.
This is because I believe that they offer a more attentive service to the business class passengers than those flights with first class. In my opinion, the business class product on these flights is often better than that to be found on a 3 class flight.
Does anyone else agree with the above?
By: 1333sl - 10th November 2000 at 10:49
RE: Two or three class
I fully agree, that airlines with 3 classes often do not know how to handle the guys “in the middle”, and I prefer airlines only providing a 2-class lay-out (C/M, like fi. KLM.
I frequently use Middle-East based airlines, and am exposed to very different standards.
Kuwait Airways C-class is fairly equal to F, however with a narrower seat, but enough leg-space, identical meals, etc. and cabin crews take good care of the passenger.
In the contrary, Gulf-Air C-class, to my opinion, tends more towards an “economy-plus” concept, seats and legroom are OK, but cabin crews still ‘throw’ the meals in your direction, they try to avoid paying attention to the passanger.
In SaudiArabian and Emirates, the difference between C, F and M fully depends on the type of aircraft.
When they use the 777, an F-ticket is waisted money, as C service is very adequate.
By: paille en queue - 5th October 2000 at 09:32
RE: Two or three class
i totally agree with you, and even in the aircraft itself, the layouts are different as well.
By: paille en queue - 5th October 2000 at 09:32
RE: Two or three class
i totally agree with you, and even in the aircraft itself, the layouts are different as well.
By: Comet - 25th September 2000 at 12:19
RE: Two or three class
If I were flying business class on a European flight, then I would not pay the prices of Finnair or Sabena (much as I love these two airlines). The reason is that, certainly on Sabena European flights, the “business class” is no different to economy, just more expensive! The seats throughout the whole aircraft are the same, all that changes is the position of the dividing curtain between the “two classes”.
Finnair USED to have a similar policy. On one MD-82 flight I was allocated a seat in row 10 flying between London and Helsinki. I thought this was a rather good seat, as I would rather not sit too near the back. However, on the return flight, also operated by MD-82, I requested a seat in row 10 once again, only to be told I probably wouldn’t get that seat as the airline had not yet decided where to put the dividing curtain for business class. It turned out my favoured seat was located in business class that day, so some poor suckers had paid twice the price to sit in a seat that only a week before I had occupied for the cost of a cut-price economy ticket!!
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th September 2000 at 23:42
RE: Two or three class
I think I’d have to agree with you there, it becomes more a premium business class as opposed to a second rate first class like many airlines seem to think. there is actually no first class on flights across the tasman & to the pacific from AKL and since the first class flights stopped , load factors have been up so fares have come down since then, until the airlines got hit by the fuel crisis….it has gone from $399NZL(cheaper than some Air NZ domestic flights) a few months back to $499 (SYD,BNE,MEL)
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