Who needs First Class seats?

Harriet Baskas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:25:20 +0000

Can’t afford First or Business class, but don’t want to fly in the economy cabin on your next flight? Soon you’ll have a new option on Air France:

The airline is carving out a new cabin section, Premium Voyageur, between the Business and Economy cabins and putting in these swanky new fixed-shell seats:

The new section will have extra legroom and many of the amenities of the Business Class cabin. The meal service will be the same as in Economy, though: aperitifs, champagne, a choice of two hot meals, liqueurs, wines and, on flights over 12 hours long, mini-sandwiches and Häagen Dazs ice-cream.

The new cabin section comes with some Business Class perks at the airport as well: priority check-in desks, increased baggage weight allowance, and priority baggage delivery.

Can’t wait to try it out? The first available destinations will be New York-JFK, Tokyo and Osaka. For more details, see the Air France Website.

Cushy in coach

Harriet Baskas — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:44:16 +0000

The folks at Luxaholics are fretting a lot about air travel these days. At Thanksgiving they shared some of my tips for stress-free travel. This week, they wanted to know how I’d “lux up” a coach seat.

They didn’t have room for all my tips, so in addition to the amenities kit from Flight 001 mentioned in the feature, I wanted to make sure folks check out the Travel Treats kits and other pint-sized products offered by minimus.biz.

Think stocking stuffers….

Stuck at the Airport » First Class

Who needs First Class seats?

Cushy in coach