Watch Etihad's Virtual Reality Film Starring Nicole Kidman

I like Etihad's virtual tour. Reminds me of my recent flight with them from London to Abu Dhabi (First Class Apartment). I made a Youtube clip of my onboard experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuxTWr2Ol44. They have the best First Class of all airlines and the virtual tour gives a good impression of how it feels like.

@Lucky - I've been trying to look for an award seat in the apartment between JFK-AUH and have not seen anything open for the last few weeks/months. Mostly I've been searching two or three weeks out. Have you noticed that too?

I downloaded the film on my iPhone via the dedicated app on the AppStore . But I was charged for it.
I thought it was free and neither did I receive any notification of it being paid. Did any one else get charged ?

Does not resemble reality ... EY F experience was a total let down and the worst premium service I have experienced. Business on some of the Asian airlines is much better! And I'm being nice here!

@Aniket: Didn't get charged. Was free for me.

Ridiculously choppy playback, especially considering it wasn't streamed. And I think I know part of the reason: when you load the app, you can see "Development Build" in the bottom right corner, as opposed to "Production Build" (although typically you wouldn't have that either).

Someone dun goofed and uploaded the wrong version.

I wouldn't proclaim Etihad's First (including A380 First Apartment) as "World's Best" either. It's a big claim to say it's "World's Best" and it falls short on a few metrics (most notably ergonomics) - and I say that as an Etihad Platinum who has flown Etihad in the premium classes extensively.

I prefer flying Etihad's 777s to the A380 due to the better ergonomics of the old First class seat - with the Etihad A380 First Apartment you get an somewhat limited seat and a not very comfortable bed (some of the bed seats are now starting to slope slightly with age now too, which I really stops me sleeping).

Service and catering can be really mixed on Etihad - a few crews are great, most are pretty ordinary, and some are really sub-par for a premium cabin - catering can run to the underwhelming or terrible (with insufficient catering at times) although they do deserve points for anytime dining. Consistency is missing.

Ground services have been lacking, although the re-opening of a First Lounge may improve that.

Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Etihad is that if anything goes wrong, they are pretty terrible at service recovery/remedy, even for their top tier Etihad Guest members.

While I have not flown The Residence (and unlikely to do so given it's only a incremental improvement over First for an over the top increase in price), I feel pretty comfortable based on my direct experience in saying that Etihad is an interesting airline that is making improvements and clearly seeking the "World's Best" mantle, but is not yet there.

I'll tell you what I think as major USA airline pilot who had worked my way up through the dregs of the industry all by myself with no help from anyone and no handouts like playing cowboys and Indians in the military.

I never like Jennifer Aniston's characters and the way she acts and the things she says in real life. Then she acted as a traitor to her own country and USA jobs and our children's mouths to feed from our jobs. I now despise her more than any other person in her industry, and never despised anyone else in that industry. Misogynistic. Period.

I always revered Nicole Kidman.

Now she is just a traitor.