Financial Times: Will the pandemic make first class a thing of the past?

First-class commercial airline is declining as more travelers choose to fly privately. Flexjet European managing director Marine Eugène said that “By May last year, we were seeing a spike in interest from people who’d never flown private. Whereas a lot of our existing customers used to fly privately within Europe, but first class for longer journeys, we’ve seen more of them using our planes to go to the Maldives or cross the Atlantic.” Read more.