Generally agree on the airport thing, until last year when my brother treated me to a Club Class flight to San Francisco. Not that I could afford to travel like that all of the time but **** me what a different experience 'Leave your luggage with us sir and our concierge will escort you to the club class lounge, where you will find an assortment of complementary food and drink whilst you await your boarding' You board the plane right from the lounge, and then a Steward is like 'This way sir I'll show you to your seat, would you like a glass of Champagne or Orange juice while you settle in. I'll give you a few minutes and then I'll bring you the Menu' Could get very used to that lol
It was **** in the past. Nowadays i dont mind so much. Whip my phone out,put on a series or read not606
I've done midclass, only because they had some offer on, it was with the airline that no longer exists, Monarch who went bust in 2017. Otherwise I've always been cattle class and yes you do notice the difference by far. Airlines finished me off though long haul, can only ever see me doing Europe now, but who knows what the future holds.
I've done quite a lot of long haul flights now and generally even economy is decent on the larger aircraft, unlike the short haul 737s which economy is about cramming as many people in as possible. But the difference with club class/business on those long haul flights is like night and day compared to economy. A seat that turns into a bed, full 3 course menu for breakfast and dinner, drinks and snacks whenever you want, club lounge either end, priority boarding and luggage collection, and staff falling over themselves to help you at every stage of the journey. It just makes the whole experience so much smoother. All very good if you can afford £2.5k each time you fly lol
I've done more long hauils than I care to remember, generally BA or Virgin, well the only two really for long haul and Monarch. Might have been another airline I done but can't remember now. Also done internal flights with American Airlines or was it the other one whose name I've forgotten, United I think. Generally if you can get exit seats it's more leg room. If you got a baby, try and get front middle seats because I think they have cots or baskets. Just odd **** that I remember lol.
Virgin are very good. Even got a glass of complementary Champagne in economy on a flight to New York lol. A couple of other good long haul carriers were Norwegian (although since covid I think they just do short haul now) flew with them to LA and they obviously had a brand new fleet of aircraft, very nice and comfy. The other was Air Transat, budget Canadian outfit, but very good. Flew with them to Vancouver for some ridiculously cheap ticket. The best / most memorable flights I've been on though were in Venezuela where I did a fair bit of travelling in my youth. The distances there are so huge and the roads are crap and dangerous, so a lot of people fly. It's cheap and quick. Some of the aircraft there were proper old rickety buckets though. Flying through the mountains and you'd get those scenes from a movie moment where some old South American woman would be saying her Hail Mary's and clutching her worry beads as the plane was bouncing around lol.
