Jose wrote:
Ummmm... have you flown first class recently?

Ummm, yeah. NY to SF. Champaigne, china, crystal, metal (though not
silver) utensils including knives, a meal that would rival many
restaurants, cloth napkins, twice as much room as coach, maybe more,
attentive stewards and stewardesses, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.


It may depend on the flight and the equipment. I did fly FC once on a
767 domestic and it was on par with international. Of course the flight
continued on to Zurich after I got off, so maybe it really should have
beenconsidered an international flight. Or maybe long nonstops in
widebodies are like that.

However first class on an MD-80 or 737 or A319 from your city to a
hub airport, then from the hub to your destination, is nothing special,
even though the sum of the flights is bicoastal.