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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s way better to be up at 1A or close to it. In the last row of first class you have all the looky-loos in economy trying to stare at you through the privacy shade. [/quote]

There is business class between 1st and the “looky-loos in economy”. So no, there isn’t any less privacy.[/quote]

Very few planes have separate first and business class anymore. The only US airline that has it is American on about 10 of their 777-300s. Air France has it on a few 777s but is mostly phasing it out.

I did find the "looky-loo" comment funny, as if someone is staring at you for hours simply because you paid more for a nicer seat.[/quote]

The lady is flying US to Paris. So, Yes, if there is a first class on the route, there is also a business class between 1st and economy on that route. [/quote]

A majority of people use  “first class” as a synonym for business class these days, since most international flights (outside of an handful of Asian/middle eastern carriers) only offer the latter.

The lady in question posted a picture of her seating assignment. Does that really scream international first class to you?[/quote]

The statement was made in response to this comment:

"There is business class between 1st and the “looky-loos in economy”. So no, there isn’t any less privacy."

So the clarifying comment was made that it's a single business class cabin.  And yes the cabin pictured appeared to be [b]Air France's A350, which does NOT have a separate first class.

And it's not only Asian/Midle Eastern gulf carriers which have a separate first class.  AA, BA, Lufthansa and Air France all offer it on [i]some[/i] of their longhaul flights, but not usually on the planes which serve Dulles. But you are correct that probably 85-90% of international long haul flights nowadays don't have a separate first class.

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Sorry, PP here, it's an Air France 787 serving Seattle, which again does not have a separate first class. Air France only has it on some of their 777-300s and usually only runs it on super premium routes like JFK-CDG and SFO-CDG. They very rarely fly that plane to Dulles.[/quote]

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