Comments on: The Other Side of the First Class Curtain https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/ Traveling full-time in a financially sustainable way Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: theprofessionalhobo https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15240 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:59:19 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15240 @Joost – LOL! Plastic seats….that’s the next installation of “cattle class” on budget airlines indeed!

@Eddie – Thanks! I’m glad you see the humour!

]]> By: Eddie https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15222 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:45:23 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15222 hey there, I LOVED your article and actually laughed out loud when you said you’d NOT divulge what happens on the 1st class side of the curtain once you were on the inside looking out.

That was a very entertaining read.
Eddie

]]> By: Joost https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15210 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:03:25 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-15210 Cattle Class in aircraft is worser than third class travel in trains on wooden seats. Today, you only can find wooden seats in the Western World in heritage trains. The leg room of third class rail coaches is better than Aircraft Cattle Class. New suggestion for Ryanair and other budget airlines: plastic benches without armrests in their aircraft and call it Budget Class. The successor of the old wooden third class coaches on rail 🙂

]]> By: theprofessionalhobo https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-5404 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:27:29 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-5404 In reply to Frank.

Heh Heh!
@Frank – Hey: First Class is timeless stuff…as you know…

]]> By: Frank https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-5403 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:42:51 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-5403 Ahh, the value of linking in to old posts and getting them recycled!

18 yrs ago flew first class Melbourne to London – In short, it was good. Nah, not just good, bloody FANTASTIC!!!!

Best part I was not paying…..

]]> By: pick a girl https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-305 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:52:28 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-305 I’ve got an injured knee last year due to martial art class. My knee was swing down to the ground and the pain was really unbearable. But luckily I am still able to walk. =) By the way, you’ve got nice blog

]]> By: Nora Dunn https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-122 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:17:00 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-122 This is unbelievable! The point of the article was to do just that…leave the reader wanting for more. I guess it worked!
This was an experiment in humour, in generating big build-up, then throwing in a twist at the end. Judging by the last two comments, I think I got it bang-on.
….we all want to know what happens on the other side of the curtain, but yet we never know because there’s a big bloody curtain in the way…that’s kind of the idea. (I can’t believe I even have to explain this).
I feel the need to repeat: this was not a how-to article, or something to reveal secrets in life.
And quite frankly there is no secret behind what happens on the other side; it’s just an upscale version of what you get in economy – kind of a let down now, huh??? That’s why I didn’t want to write about it.
Sheesh.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-120 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:11:00 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-120 I, too, expected that you would actually have some comments about the first class experience once you got there. Why would you feel the need to be so secretive (and then defensive to anonymous about it)? How was the experience once you were there?

]]> By: Nora Dunn https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-71 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:30:00 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-71 Ha Ha!
If you have spent any time at all reading this blog, you’ll find that it’s a collection of stories, adventures, and experiences, not a how-to guide.
If you want to know how to get upgrades, try this article instead:
http://www.wisebread.com/how-to-travel-in-style-for-free

…and yes – a bad knee really helps. Sorry to disappoint!

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-68 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:30:00 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/07/the-other-side-of-the-first-class-curtain/#comment-68 The title of this article implies that you are going to talk about the First Class experience, and yet you spend the majority of the article on boring reminisces of what economy used to be like. I was hoping for some real tips on how to get upgrades, or at least a clever discussion of what goes on on “the other side of the curtain”. But you basically gloss over the most interesting parts of your story, wrapping it up in a rush. So one has to have a bad knee to get an upgrade? Thanks for nothing.

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