Cobblers Everywhere

[Peter Frost]

So who do you rate as having the best business class?
For me it would be a toss up between Singapore and Emirates.

I‘m a big fan of virgin- perhaps not the most luxurious but always fun - the absolute worse are Air India

[Deepcut Cobbler]

I‘m a big fan of virgin- perhaps not the most luxurious but always fun - the absolute worse are Air India

I've been on some right crates and white knuckle rides around the world...

[XVK]

I've been on some right crates and white knuckle rides around the world...

C/O Crab air?

[singcobb]

Garuda Indonesia first class was excellent, but when we landed at Gatwick the pilot decided to turn the wrong way on the taxi way and was made to do an almost full circuit of the place before we got to the finger.
Internal flights on Indonesia were and experience to say the least. On the approach to Surabaya the pilot announced we were going to start our decent and promptly sticks it into a nose dive like an effing Stuka dive bomber. Found out later that on internal flights they were using mainly ex airforce pilots who hadn't quite worked out that shedding height and speed on a civilian aircraft was a bit different to that of a military plane.

[Deepcut Cobbler]

C/O Crab air?

No, CrabAir are good compared to some of those I've been in.
My first EVER flight was as an 18 year old, nine hours in the back of a C130 Hercules to The Gambia.
80+ of us flying in the back of a flying furniture van, in canvas seats, with no windows and a 'chemical' bucket surrounded by a shower curtain for the toilet.
Over the years, I grew to love flying in Hercs... often flying for days on end in them. 

[XVK]

No, CrabAir are good compared to some of those I've been in.
My first EVER flight was as an 18 year old, nine hours in the back of a C130 Hercules to The Gambia.
80+ of us flying in the back of a flying furniture van, in canvas seats, with no windows and a 'chemical' bucket surrounded by a shower curtain for the toilet.
Over the years, I grew to love flying in Hercs... often flying for days on end in them. 

VC10's were quite luxurious, 24 hours to Singapore in 1969, ice cold coke in Bahrain and breakfast on Gan atoll in the Maldives, the first time I saw yellow tomatoes. Stepping off the VC10 into the tropical heat of a Singapore evening was a shocker. Waking up the following morning in a room with a ceiling fan and palm trees outside was amazing........... Best years of my childhood C/O the RAF 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

VC10's were quite luxurious, 24 hours to Singapore in 1969, ice cold coke in Bahrain and breakfast on Gan atoll in the Maldives, the first time I saw yellow tomatoes. Stepping off the VC10 into the tropical heat of a Singapore evening was a shocker. Waking up the following morning in a room with a ceiling fan and palm trees outside was amazing........... Best years of my childhood C/O the RAF 

With all seats in the safest position, facing backwards...

[XVK]

With all seats in the safest position, facing backwards...

Indeed they were, and sweets were given out prior to takeoff and landing to assist with pressure changes in the ears