[anon102010]

I did international first in the 747. Def not ‘cattle car’. The front windows are angled so you can see forward more than usual - it’s surprisingly quiet in the top front and the views were beautiful- you felt like you were floating. I slept well too which is rare (wine may have helped) and fun to think of the engineering that went into these big birds. Only negative is that it is all so over the top - wife and I more comfortable in biz or e+

[daseiner1]

i’m sorry, did you just sincerely talk about your experience in international first-class as a retort to the cattle car conditions that 95%+ of the passengers on the very same flight as you would’ve experienced?

[mjrbrennan]

Not the OP, but I think they mean the first time they flew internationally, it was in a 747?

[tsimionescu]

No, I'm pretty sure they mean international first class, especially since they also mention 'it's surprisingly quiet in the top front', which is where first class is.

[daseiner1]

that was my thought until:

“Only negative is that it is all so over the top - wife and I more comfortable in biz or e+”

[kelnos]

Right, they meant that the trappings of first class are so over the top that it makes them uncomfortable.

Odd thing is I thought the 747 was usually configured with biz class upstairs (I got a biz upgrade on a SIN->DPS flight many years ago and flew upstairs) and first class in the front of the main level, so maybe they weren't talking about first class. Or perhaps some airlines have/had 747s with first upstairs.

[anon102010]

100% my error - main deck for sure. We also boarded using wrong jetway - I guess there was a first entrance somewhere maybe that was different?

[elygre]

The reference to angled windows with forward view puts them at the lower deck, I think.

[iso1631]

Given the average salary on HN seems to be around $500k, why would you fly anywhere else?

[tdrp]

As I mentioned in a different thread, I love it because it's so stable. There's no constant shaking or rocking, and you don't get woken up every 5 minutes by random minor turbulence - it just powers through it like the beast that it is.

[iso1631]

> wife and I more comfortable in biz or e+

I can relate. Flew A380 in biz with family London to Singapore, 4 seats across the middle, 9 mo old on the outside, then wife, then 3 yr, then me. Great flight

A month later we flew onto Sydney, but there were no Business seats left, instead we had to fly in First. My seat was dirty, during turbulence the pursar woke us and told us we had to remove our sleeping child from his nice safe airline approved car seat (which he'd flown in from London to Singapore) and put him our our lap.

Haven't flown BA F since, or flown them with family, and only taken 18 BA flights in 4 years since then. The 4 years before then I'd taken 243.

Amazing how one bad experience and the inability to get a simple apology can shift your buying habits.

[elygre]

On the 747, wouldn’t “top front” be the cockpit? Angled windows for passengers would be bottom front.