Etihad First Class: What Does The Future Hold?

Article 4. Do you have a quota with them bro? Impacting overall cred bro! SMH

@ DT -- No quota, just lots of interesting updates based on a recent Etihad CEO interview. Would you like me to just not cover things that I find interesting, or to space the stories out by weeks for no good reason? I totally respect if you don't find stories about Etihad interesting, but I'd recommend skipping this posts, then. It's odd how you're commenting on virtually every Etihad post talking about how you're not interested in the stories, and how Etihad sucks.

As far as having a "quota with them" goes, is that really what you think? You realize I recently wrote about an Etihad executive who is reportedly faking a LinkedIn to pat himself on the back? Does that sound like a story by someone who has a quota with an organization?

Ignore the morons, Ben. Your blog, your decision on what you post.

Do I give a crap about Spirit? No. My solution? I don't read posts about Spirit. Commenting on them would be utterly idiotic.

Tl;dr - Keep up the great work!

I hope it stays but wont be surprised if it goes.

I recently flew EY F from Washington to Abu Dhabi. Use to fly this route a lot back in the day and always enjoyed it. This time it was still good, with great service, and I liked the food, etc, but some things they seemed to be skimping on. For instance, the menu listed all these wonderful champagnes, but when I ordered champagne I was served some cheap knock off brand. The flight attendant told me that they never have what's on the menu as the taxes are too high. That seemed like a very weird explanation, but alas. The wines were there, bu the champagne was some cheap bottle I'd never heard of. Besides that, though, I appreciated the seat and the bedding, which absolutely distinguishes itself from Business. All in all a nice flight, but I was surprised at the champagne skimp.

I wish I could have Ben's gentle diplomacy when dealing with the antics of stupid people... but I don't.

Why would this doof care, even if there *was* some quota with an airline or partner? If you don't like it, don't read it. How hard is that?

Ben, I'm interested in baseball. Why don't you write about baseball? Oh, sure, other people want to hear about the travel hobby. BUT, I DON'T. So, just stop it. (Ben, keep writing what seems timely and relevant to you. The jerks can walk.)

I am interested to know what will happen to the Residence, now that they charge it as a supplement to first class. Will Qatar passengers be buying it enough to justify keeping the product on the a380s or will they remove it in the medium term and put something else in that space? A larger shower would be nice, like Emirates.

What do "Qatar passengers" have to do with Etihad's Residence?

Etihad doesn't fly the product to that country, and is there any evidence that Qataris purchase it more than anyone else, on the routes that it does fly?

@ Ben Oh come on , stop with this fake outrage. You run a public blog, can’t expect just your fanboys to post and respond. People will call you out for glaring inconsistencies. Look, you did a huge fanfare announcement on new kits and PJ’s on EY. I flew them on 2 flights in April - on ORD- AUH and AUH - LHR - paid business separately. No enhanced amenities that you publicized. That’s not news - it’s promo and you should label it as such. Don’t bristle when called out - I get you gotta make the money and get awards and seats opened up for you, but marking posts as ads helps set expectations. Just like your Four Seasons almost- free posts. If you do t really have a commercial or “special” tie up with EY - man you are a saint for the free publicity you give them. If you do, mark your posts as ads. That’s all.

I think it’s fair to just ignore anyone who uses bro twice in a comment that short.

Where is the award availability using AA miles? It's completely doomed.