일단 저의 후기는 아닙니다..... ㅜ
저희 마모에도 많은 고수 분들께서 일등석 탑승 후기를 올려주곤 하시는데요
유명한 omaat 블로거 Lucky 가 뽑은 2018 최고의 일등석 항공사 순위입니다.
그리고 저쪼아래에.. 14위 16위에 사진도없이 대한항공 과 아시아나가 턱걸이로 올라와있네요 ㅎ
출처: https://onemileatatime.com/best-first-class/
Emirates introduced their new first class on select 777-300ER aircraft earlier this year, and the product is spectacular. Emirates is the first airline to introduce truly fully enclosed suites in first class. The suites don’t just have doors that add privacy, but rather are enclosed floor-to-ceiling (Air France has curtains that go floor-to-ceiling, but I consider that to be different). As someone who likes privacy, I love that.
The seat is also thoughtfully designed, with every detail thought of. The suite is spacious, the TV screen huge, the bed extremely comfortable, you can control the lighting and temperature in the suite, etc.
The soft product is also exceptional, from their free flowing Dom Perignon, to their dine on demand menu with all kinds of great options (including caviar).
While Emirates A380s don’t have seats that are impressive, they have the advantage of having onboard showers and an onboard bar, so that’s a treat as well.
There are great first class products, and then there’s the perfection which is Air France first class. Air France’s 777-300ER first class cabin consists of a single row of seats, in a 1-2-1 configuration. The cabin is so elegant, and rather than offering suites with doors, they instead have curtains you can pull around your suite.
But what really sets apart Air France is the first class soft product. The food is the best I’ve had on any airline, the service is impeccable and oh-so-French, and every part of the experience is thought out.
When it’s time to sleep, Air France has some of the most comfortable bedding in the sky, and I love being able to draw a curtain around my seat for privacy.
The way I see it, Air France first class is the world’s most well rounded first class product. So while I do think Emirates wins out in terms of the onboard experience, Air France still offers the world’s most well rounded first class experience, given that they offer the world’s best first class lounge experience at their Paris Charles de Gaulle hub.
The only area where Air France first class could improve is with the addition of wifi, but that’s coming soon.
Garuda Indonesia is another airline that’s both consistent and tailors the experience from the time you arrive at the airport to when you leave. Garuda Indonesia first class has eight suites with doors. The hard product is good, though not remarkable compared to some of the other products out there.
But everything about the soft product is perfection. I find Garuda Indonesia to have the best flight attendants of any airline, and they even have an onboard chef in first class. The food is divine, they have great wine pairings, the presentation is exceptional, they offer first class passengers free wifi, etc. If you have any special requests for your flight, you can even make those before departure.
But really it’s the crews that make the experience. Many surveys rank Garuda Indonesia as having the best cabin crew, and I have to agree. The warmth of the Garuda Indonesia flight attendants I had on both of my flights with them was unrivaled.
The only area where Garuda Indonesia can improve is with their bedding. While it’s good, it’s not nearly as plush as what some other airlines offer.
Singapore Airlines is known for being one of the best airlines in the world, and they introduced their new Suites late last year between Singapore and Sydney.
Some might be surprised that this isn’t in one of the top two spots on my list.
The new Suites are really, really impressive. They’re in a 1-1 layout, with just six suites at the front of the upper deck of the A380. Singapore has dedicated more square footage to each first class passenger than any other airline.
Each Suite has both a seat and a separate bed, which is a mighty nice feature.
On a good day, Singapore’s Suites might be the best first class soft product in the world. On a lunch or dinner flight departing Singapore their catering is typically excellent, and they sometimes have caviar, satay, etc. You can even “book the cook” in advance, and order from a huge menu that’s not otherwise available onboard.
Singapore is also the only airline to offer both Dom Perignon and Krug onboard, and at the moment they’re even serving 2004 Krug.
Service on Singapore Airlines is typically impeccable.
So based on that, how the heck am I not ranking this product higher? It really kills me to say this, but Singapore Airlines just didn’t put much thought into the design of the Suites. The cabin looks beautiful, and the seats look impressive, but when it comes down to it, the individual components aren’t great.
The seat is wobbly and has limited recline. You can only eat facing the aisle, where you’re looking directly at another passenger. The bed is no bigger than on any other top airline, and it’s extremely hard. There are no individual air nozzles, and air flow is very limited.
So this is still a world class product, all things considered. However, despite the amount of space they invested in the Suites, I can’t help but feel disappointed in the fact that they didn’t instead use the space to create the world’s most comfortable bed on a plane. They had the space to do it, but they didn’t.
Etihad was the first airline to have a single-aisle configuration in first class on their A380s.
Their First Class “Apartments,” as they’re called, will take your breath away. I remember being speechless the first time I walked on an Etihad A380.
Etihad has a dine on demand menu with an onboard chef who can help you customize your meal, an onboard shower, and has the most square footage dedicated to each first class passenger of any airline. The airline also recently added caviar in A380 first class, so in some ways they’re improving.
However, there are some areas where Etihad is style over substance, in my opinion. While the suite is huge, it isn’t actually that practically designed, as the seat doesn’t recline that far back, and the bed isn’t that large. This is the same issue I have with Singapore’s new Suites.
Cathay Pacific’s product has more or less remained unchanged for the past decade, and it’s still one of my favorites out there. Cathay Pacific first class has just six seats, in a 1-1-1 configuration. While the seats aren’t fully enclosed, they’re angled away from the aisle and sufficiently spacious so that there’s no need for them to be. It makes the product feel less claustrophobic, which I appreciate.
Cathay Pacific has one of the three most comfortable beds in the sky. The bed is wide, and the bedding plush.
I also love the ability to dine face-to-face with a companion. Caviar and Krug at 37,000 feet is a heck of a date night. I also appreciate that Cathay Pacific offers a full meal service even on departures in the middle of the night.
Cathay Pacific crews are also consistent and attentive. They’re always there during the meals, and when you need something during the flight, they appear in just a couple of seconds after pushing the call button.
So, why isn’t Cathay Pacific ranked higher? They don’t yet have wifi on most planes (though they’re in the process of installing it), but mainly because other than the caviar, I don’t find their meal services to be that great. The food has been identical for about a decade, and their main courses are typically pretty bland. I wish they’d switch things up a bit more.
There’s no country where there’s more pride in the service industry than Japan, and that’s incredibly evident when flying Japan Airlines first class. It’s like getting a taste of Japan before you even get there. Japan Airlines has fully flat beds in first class with direct aisle access, though the seats as such don’t stand out that much.
What does stand out is the excellent food (caviar, sushi, wagyu beef, etc.), Cristal champagne, the free and fast wifi, the ability to choose the firmness of your mattress pad, and the perfect service.
Maybe I’m biased due to my German background, but I love Lufthansa first class for how consistent and elegant it is. No, they don’t have the most private first class seats out there, but the cabins are elegant (in a German way), the service is among the best of any western airline, and they’re remarkably consistent in terms of their offerings.
There’s just something about the pre-flight champagne, nuts, and roses that makes me feel like I’m at home in Lufthansa first class.
Lufthansa has great bedding in first class, and they offer first class passengers free wifi, and it’s even quite fast.
It’s a toss-up between Lufthansa first class and Swiss first class, so I could have just as easily ranked Swiss ahead of Lufthansa. Swiss’ 777-300ER first class cabins have eight seats, in a 1-2-1 configuration.
The food presentation and quality are definitely higher-end feeling than on Lufthansa, even though they don’t have caviar.
I’ve had great service in Swiss first class, though I’ve also had pretty bad service, so I find that part of the product to be a bit inconsistent.
Swiss’ first class bedding is plush and comfortable, so a great night of sleep on Swiss is a given.
Some might be surprised to see me ranking ANA first class a few places below JAL first class. Like I said, there’s no science to my rankings, but there are two reasons I don’t like ANA first class quite as much as JAL:
Other than that, ANA first class is great. Caviar, Krug, fantastic Japanese food, etc.
This can’t be included on the list since it’s not technically a first class product, but rather is the most incredible experience you can have in commercial aviation. Unfortunately it’s also priced accordingly. Having your own three room suite, including a private bedroom and shower, with butler service, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and then some.
Man, how fondly I think back on my flight in the Residence…
There you have it. Those are what I consider to be the world’s 10 best first class products. As you can see, compared to the last list, Emirates moved from #4 to #1, Singapore moved from #5 to #4, and Etihad moved from #4 to #5.
I’d like to once again emphasize that I think anyone would be reasonable to think that the above products should be in a different order, but hopefully this is at least a useful list in terms of the 10 all around best first class products.
For anyone curious,
I think I know what I’d rank as the next six first class products (11-16), roughly in order — Qatar, Oman, Qantas, Korean, Thai, and Asiana.
럭키 이놈 이름 한 번 잘 지어서...
마모인생 닉따라 가는건 불변의 진리 인가 봅니다 ㅎㅎ
얼마예요?
늘 일등석/비즈 후기 보면서 느끼는거지만, 저는요, 저기선 비행시간내내 잠도 안자고 랩탑들고 탁탁탁... 내리기 전까지 일만 주구장창 해야만 될것같은 느낌이 들어요 :) 아~ 없어보이게시리... ㅎ
저는 먹고자고먹고자고 코골고 ㅋㅋ 더 없어보일거 같은데요
당연하지만 미국 항공사는 없네요. 상관도 안하는듯요.
이 순위표 보는 많은 사람들도 당연 하다는듯이 수긍할거같네요 미국 항공사는 시설, 서비스등에서 확연히 수준이 떨어지니...
한국 국적기 항공사는 명함도 못 내미는군요.
이런거 보면 더더욱 대한항공은 그냥 비즈타고 가는게 답인거 같기도 해요. 물론 퍼스트가 더 좋은건 알지만 마성비 생각하면 비즈가 가장 목적에 잘 맞는거 같기도 하구요.
kaidou님 말씀듣고보니 퍼스트보단 비즈가 마성비로는 제일 좋은 옵션같네요
헐 인도네시아도 순위권인데 국적기는 뭥미%
GA는 이해가 안가네요. GA가 저 순위에 있을정도인가..
JL도 좀.... JL 일등석 수 번 탔지만 탑 10에 들정도인가 싶네요. 하드웨어 업글부터하고 소프트웨어도 엄청 대단하다 할 정도가 아니었는데..
순위 기준이 명확하진 않아서;;
작게 써놓은 설명만 보면 아마도 럭키가 승무원과 요리에 대한 점수를 높게 쳐주었나봐요. 식도락 여행중이었나..?
저도 JAL 은 정말 이해가 안 되네요....
KAL 이나 OZ이 비해 확연히 밀리던데...
GA 일등석 딱 한번 타봤는데 (자카르타-런던 노선) 승무원들의 친절함, 배려, 세심함 등이 혀를 내두를 정도긴 하더군요.
물론 일등석 타면 대부분의 항공사들이 좋은 서비스를 제공하긴 하지만 GA가 유난히 뛰어나다고 생각이 들긴 했습니다.
Emirate하고 Singapore.. 언젠간 타고말테야.
오오 맥블님의 일등석 명품후기가 벌써 기대됩니다! 조만간 꼭 타게되시길~
아 저도 타보고 싶네요. 근데 어떤 항공사도 부부가 First를 끊을 만큼 모으기 전에 족족 써버려서리... 그나만 이번에 UA와 알라스카가 좀 생겨서 내년에 동남아시아 갈려는데 비지니스나 한번 타보자고 벼르고 있네요.
어휴 마모안하는 남들은 평생에 한번 탈까말까 하는 일등석을...
이제 저 중에 10개만 더 타보면 일등석은 다 섭렵하겠군효~
그나저나 캐세이 카펫은 왤케 드러운건지... 딱 그게 눈에 보이는 나는 맴이 얼마나 삐뚤어진겐지
에미레이츠 항공 새로운 일등석 한번 타보고 싶네요.
마일리지 좌석으로 언제쯤 풀리려나요. ㅋㅋㅋ
저는 JAL 만 타봤는데, JAL, Korean Air, Asiana 다 타보신분이... 랭킹을 Asiana > Korean Air > JAL 이렇게 하시는데... 흠... 역시나 안타보면 모르는걸까요? ㅋㅋㅋ ^^
저는 개인적으로 JAL 좋습디다. 아직 대한항공 일등석은 안 타봤지만... 음식만으로 따진다면 1-2등이라 해도 과언이 아닐 정도로 괜찮은 식사들이 나옵니다. 에티하드는 정말 서비스 들쭉날쭉.... GA/EK/AF도 안타봐서 모르겠습니다만... 스타일에 있어서는 AF 매우 매력적인 것 같습니다. 타보고 싶지만... 선택할 수 있는 것들이 많아서 꼭 타야지 하는 생각도 없어요. 저는 비즈니스, 아니 프리미엄 이코노미도 (CX 프이코는 리클라인도 좋고 정말 괜찮았습니다) 충분히 좋다고 생각하고 여러가지를 타볼 수 있는 기회가 있다는 것에 감사하고 있습니다.
이제 뭐 에미레이츠는 거의 넘사벽이라..
JAL, Cathay, asiana, KE 정도만 타기 만만해보일듯요
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