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How much does a first class ticket on a US carrier cost versus a ticket on Emirates that lets you use the shower? Can coach people use the bar too?

I guess Courtney Cox is now my favorite Friends girl.
 
Emirates First Class menu:

Cocktails and canapés
A selection of cocktails and cold canapés

Appetizers
Wild Iranian caviar
Served with traditional accompaniments, sour cream and blinis

Arabic mezze
A selection of traditional Arabic mezze, including labneh with sumac powder stuffed in cucumber, moutabel, shanklish salad, marinated loubieh in tomato cup, cheese sambousik, sujuk with haloumi cheese, kibbeh stuffed with ratatouille, coated prawns

Smoked tangerine chicken
Thin slices of tangerine-marinated smoked chicken breast served on lentil salad, accompanied by zaatar dressing

Tomato and okra soup
Spicy tomato soup with baby okra slices, served with toasted croutons

Salad
Freshly prepared salad
Salad prepared to your liking by your crew with a choice of accompaniments, offered with roasted red pepper mayonnaise or Italian vinaigrette

Main courses
Samka harra
Marinated fillets of hammour served with orange-flavored sauce, enhanced with jalapeno pepper

Braised beef in coconut milk
Shredded slices of tender beef, braised and served in a coconut sauce, garnished with cilantro and fried red peppers

Glazed duck breast
Duck breast glazed with wild forest honey, roasted and accompanied by a mild cherry sauce

Aubergine lasagne
Layers of spinach pasta and grilled aubergine slices, served with creamy mozarella sauce and sprinkled with tomato-flavored pesto sauce

Vegetables
Creamed fennel, broccoli souffle, mixture of turned vegetables, parisienne potatoes with herbs, and steamed rice

Desserts
Banana pudding
Baked banana and pecan nut pudding, accompanied by half-whipped cream

Strawberry cheesecake
Traditional homemade cheesecake with fresh strawberries

Cheese
International cheeseboard
A selection of international cheeses, served with crackers, grapes, and crudités

Fruit
Selection of seasonal fruits
Beverages and chocolates

Tea
Ceylon, China, Earl Grey, Chamomile

Coffee
Freshly brewed, decaffeinated available

Chocolates
 
The shower/spa

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The value traveler isn't able to walk through that cabin.

It's just like people that say "Foreign flight attendants are young! American flight attendants are old!"

Yeah? Well, if your mom was a flight attendant in most parts of the world, she would have gotten fired when your daddy knocked her up.

It is (superficially) awesome because (a) state money and (b) no labor laws.
 
The value traveler isn't able to walk through that cabin.

It's just like people that say "Foreign flight attendants are young! American flight attendants are old!"

Yeah? Well, if your mom was a flight attendant in most parts of the world, she would have gotten fired when your daddy knocked her up.

It is (superficially) awesome because (a) state money and (b) no labor laws.

Exactly.

Plus we're talking about a country that has a Bugatti Veyron (among other high dollar cars) police car because apparently they can just poop out money. Now I've never been to Dubai, but most reasonable people report that it's a glitzy facade with very little substance. I know they're comparatively liberal there, but I wouldn't take my wife and daughter to live in that place.

It's clear that they're not running that airline on commercial profit alone. A380s with showers and private suites and bars ziping all over the globe to serve a tiny gulf state seems just slightly absurd. But maybe I'm not completely informed on all the data.
 
Emirates First Class menu:

Cocktails and canapés
A selection of cocktails and cold canapés

Appetizers
Wild Iranian caviar
Served with traditional accompaniments, sour cream and blinis

Arabic mezze
A selection of traditional Arabic mezze, including labneh with sumac powder stuffed in cucumber, moutabel, shanklish salad, marinated loubieh in tomato cup, cheese sambousik, sujuk with haloumi cheese, kibbeh stuffed with ratatouille, coated prawns

Smoked tangerine chicken
Thin slices of tangerine-marinated smoked chicken breast served on lentil salad, accompanied by zaatar dressing

Tomato and okra soup
Spicy tomato soup with baby okra slices, served with toasted croutons

Salad
Freshly prepared salad
Salad prepared to your liking by your crew with a choice of accompaniments, offered with roasted red pepper mayonnaise or Italian vinaigrette

Main courses
Samka harra
Marinated fillets of hammour served with orange-flavored sauce, enhanced with jalapeno pepper

Braised beef in coconut milk
Shredded slices of tender beef, braised and served in a coconut sauce, garnished with cilantro and fried red peppers

Glazed duck breast
Duck breast glazed with wild forest honey, roasted and accompanied by a mild cherry sauce

Aubergine lasagne
Layers of spinach pasta and grilled aubergine slices, served with creamy mozarella sauce and sprinkled with tomato-flavored pesto sauce

Vegetables
Creamed fennel, broccoli souffle, mixture of turned vegetables, parisienne potatoes with herbs, and steamed rice

Desserts
Banana pudding
Baked banana and pecan nut pudding, accompanied by half-whipped cream

Strawberry cheesecake
Traditional homemade cheesecake with fresh strawberries

Cheese
International cheeseboard
A selection of international cheeses, served with crackers, grapes, and crudités

Fruit
Selection of seasonal fruits
Beverages and chocolates

Tea
Ceylon, China, Earl Grey, Chamomile

Coffee
Freshly brewed, decaffeinated available

Chocolates

Okay, looking at flights in March of next year, a round trip first class ticket LAX-DXB is $30k. A first class ticket on United for the same segment (with a stop in IAD) costs less than $9k. How can they even make a comparison? Why are they even making TV ads for people who can justify $30k for a round trip ticket? Does that demographic make purchase choices from TV ads?
 
From the countr where the "poor" people drive brand new Landrover's, I think $30k to fly across the world in luxury isn't a stretch for most.

Cost is relative. Value isn't.
 
Considering she's taking money from a country that doesn't treat women with a great deal of respect and has the potential to damage the industry I work in, I think it's fair to criticize. I didn't have any reason to criticize her before today.

Fair enough on the treatment of women issue (you didn't mention that in your OP), but I fail to see how it would damage the industry.
 
Fair enough on the treatment of women issue (you didn't mention that in your OP), but I fail to see how it would damage the industry.

How can US carriers compete on international routes when their competitors are funded by their governments? They don't have to be commercially profitable when that kind of cash sustains them. Check out ALPA's Open Skies data.
 
How can US carriers compete on international routes when their competitors are funded by their governments? They don't have to be commercially profitable when that kind of cash sustains them. Check out ALPA's Open Skies data.
Oh, so you mean it will be detrimental to your EMPLOYER, not the INDUSTRY. I understand now.
 
Oh, so you mean it will be detrimental to your EMPLOYER, not the INDUSTRY. I understand now.

I'm thinking something analogous to outsourcing. We don't want to see the airline industry turn into the shipping industry where the bulk of commerce is handled by foreign flagged ships and crews.

But, you know, I guess I'm biased.
 
No, it will be detrimental to the INDUSTRY.

Even if they are foreign, they are still part of the same industry. I now understand what he meant. If you want to continue following the pedantic thought I started, I'm game.
 
I'm thinking something analogous to outsourcing. We don't want to see the airline industry turn into the shipping industry where the bulk of commerce is handled by foreign flagged ships and crews.

But, you know, I guess I'm biased.

Those foreign flagged ships and crews are still part of the shipping industry.
 
Even if they are foreign, they are still part of the same industry. I now understand what he meant. If you want to continue following the pedantic thought I started, I'm game.

It will decimate the United States Airline Industry.
 
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