<p>To fly from New York to Tokyo first class and non stop, the cost is $16,744.40 for one person. To fly coach and non stop, the cost is $1,445.</p>
<p>NWA and Continental - coach (that’s where all the fun. and pretty young ladies sometimes)
US Airways is OK, United is OK. But i’d rather fly through detroit than chicago or houston.</p>
<p>whats business class? is that different from coach and first class?</p>
<p>“5 grand to fly first class? I don’t think you could FIND a seat that costs that much on ANY normal flight.”</p>
<p>Apparently you have no clue what your talking about. My brother does a ton of traveling in his work, and the firm pays for him to fly first class. I have seen some of his itinieries, or invoices, whatever they are and I have never seen him have a ticket for less than 5 grand, the most I saw was just shy of 20 grand round trip.</p>
<p>I think business class is in between first class and coach but I don’t really know much about it.</p>
<p>I lucked out on my senior trip to Florida and got a first class window seat there and back. I flew AirTran… No complaints. They had free satellite radio, which was pretty cool. First class is great, but I doubt I’d spend all that money to upgrade from coach under normal circumstances.</p>
<p>usually first or business</p>
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<p>It’s a step up from coach, but a step down from first class.</p>
<p>Business Class is basically second class. You wouldn’t be able to sell many “second class” seats though would you? It’s a marketing thing.</p>
<p>I’ve always flown coach. I normally use Continental or United, Air madrid, iberia.</p>
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Business class is great. The seats are basically the same as first class used to be. First class now has seats that turn into beds (I’m referring to intercontinental flights). I say business class is great because the seat is larger and far more comfortable and there’s more legroom. They generally give free drinks (alcoholic) in business as well but I don’t drink much so I don’t care about this aspect. </p>
<p>Business class does cost significantly more than coach and first class costs significantly more than business class. One reason for this is that many of the people flying in business or first are doing so because their company pays for it so they’re not as price conscious as the consumer trying to get the best deal. Another way people tend to fly business or first is to turn in frquent flyer miles for an ‘upgrade’. Every now and then the airlines will ‘bump you up’ a class. This happened to me once coming back from Europe wher I got bumped to first. I didn’t argue with them at all on this.</p>
<p>Regarding the airline to fly, it really depends on where you’re going as that tends to dictate your choices. Once you know your choices, it boils down to cost, convenience in departure times, type of aircraft (big vs small), and the reliability of the airline/aircraft - i.e. likelihood of cancellations/delays.</p>
<p>I always fly United, sometimes Southwest (when the non-profit organization I work for is paying for it). Both are great and offer direct flights from Chicago for the most competitive rates. I would say they have the same level of service, except that United staff are more formal. Also, United has more frequent flights and allows passengers to standby on earlier flights for no additional price.</p>
<p>southwest as much as possible, but since they don’t fly to chicago (ORD)…united for now. coach, o’course. i guess maybe when i decide that driving more is okay then i’ll do southwest. but for basic california travel, southwest=yes</p>
<p>but then i suppose if you really want to splurge, go for dubai first class. check it out online, you’ll get a kick out of it</p>
<p>Usually coach. Airlines I have flown on include Delta, jetBlue, US Air, US Airways, World Airways, ASA, Comair, Mesa, Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia, Continental, Aloha, Northwest, Mesaba, Pinnacle, Expressjet, and the good old Air Forces of the United States and France.</p>
<p>I flew finair business class last month, and we had the seats that go all the way down to a bed. Although I have to say, they are not very comfortable. They don’t go totally flat, it sort of bends around the knees (i.e. where the footrest meets the seat). I’m 5’11, and these beds were really uncomfortable because I’m at a height where the angle steepens right where my knees are (if i’m lieing on my side) this caused some really wierd, and somewhat painful tension on the sides of my knees. I feel like if you’re shorter than 5’10 or taller than 6’0 it’s probably fine.</p>
<p>One of the many airlines that one should NEVER EVER EVER EVER fly: America West Airlines. Unless, of course, you want to sneeze all flight because their planes are filthy and probably haven’t been vacuumed in a month, get to your destination 6 hours (OR MORE) later than the scheduled arrival time, experience poor service, and deal with seating assignment screwups (we were assigned seats 5ABC and then they assigned the same seats to SOMEONE ELSE-of course the flight attendants were too busy ignoring us to figure out a solution).</p>