These kinds of features are important to airlines competing for top-paying, first-class passengers on international routes.
For some time now Lufthansa's first-class passengers, and guests at German luxury hotels, have been offered organic food.
Soon after Lufthansa began its tarmac car service, Air France added car service for first-class passengers at its Paris hub.
While most meals for economy class are deep frozen, for business and first-class passengers food is freshly prepared on the day.
Emirates Airlines offers first-class passengers a private suite, a seat in a pod-like, private space and a chair with massage capability.
You can't beat the Trump-like amenities, either: things like car service to the airport for business and first-class passengers and free alcohol.
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Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.
It's not exactly a choice between a rock and a hard place when the stakes are between fruitful first-class passengers--and a workforce that now seems prone to taking industrial action.
And first-class passengers can attend a wine-and-cheese tasting.
Or when Virgin Atlantic set a new standard in air travel, offering manicures, massages and limo rides to the airport for first-class passengers and giving economy travelers seat-back entertainment systems with a choice of movies and videogames.
Less populist, Tim Clark, president of Emirates, which has ordered 45 planes to fulfil its ambitions of establishing Dubai as a new global hub, says that business and first-class passengers will enter through separate doors to an exclusive upper deck.
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Come evening first-class passengers repair for cocktails to the dome car's snub-nose lounge, where, as they sip Canadian Club or Canadian microbrews and graze on smoked salmon and foie gras, they can visit with one another and enjoy the waning light.
Continental will continue to offer complimentary food to all first- and business-class passengers.
The report, Air Travel and Health, will raise concerns about the amount of leg-room available on flights - but it is expected to conclude that first-class and business-class passengers are also at risk.
Since May, British Airways has experimented with offering iPads with pre-loaded content to first and business class passengers on its Boeing 777 aircraft, while they are awaiting installation of a newer built-in system.
Passengers travelling first-class are politely summoned into a dining car, where a portrait of the Kenyan president grins down at white linen-covered tables, while attendants shuffle dutifully about the corridors, dispensing blankets stamped with faded Kenya Railways logos.
On all airlines, passengers can buy first-class or business-class seats, which are wider.
Here they have one Galleries Lounge for business, the First lounge for First, and just to confuse things, only in Terminal 5 (there are also lounges in 1 and 3) they have the Concorde Room, also for First class passengers, with hotel-style rooms featuring beds and en suite bathrooms, plus restaurant-style dining.
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Onboard there were first-class restaurant facilities, a cocktail bar and radio equipment, so passengers could hear the horse-racing results.
In a sense, they are a continuation of the strategy that made it a world-class airline: back in the 1970s it was the first to offer all passengers free drinks and head-sets, in defiance of the airline cartel that insisted on charges for such items.
Less than a year after the White Star Line-owned vessels left the city, the Nomadic was employed to transport first and second class passengers from the French port of Cherbourg to the Titanic ahead of its ill-fated maiden Atlantic voyage.
From the outside they look like a line of gleaming Airstream trailers, especially the dome car at the rear, whose rounded windows afford passengers traveling first class a glorious 360-degree view.
The carrier will soon start passing out wi-fi enabled Samsung Galaxy tablets to first and business class passengers to watch the same programming if they did not bring their own viewing device.
The number of passengers in the U.S. paying for first-class, business-class and full-price economy airfares has halved in the past five years, from 18% to 9%, says the Velocity Group, an aviation consultancy.
In a trading statement, the company said that the "challenging economic environment" meant it was seeing fewer passengers on the East Coast main line and "significant" levels of people downgrading from first-class and full fares.
" Steerage passengers who were missing were not listed, but among those lost from the first- or second-class cabins were five exiled nuns, whose misspelled names were given as "Barbara Hilkenschmidt, Henrico Tassbander, Lorbela Reenkober, Aurea Radjura, and Brigella Dambard.
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