First Class on Japan Airlines' A350 is a soulless beauty: my impressions from the hot seat

I just got off the A350 of Japan Airlines, the most modern cabin on board today Of an A350/1000. 

JAL has set up its flagships in four classes, no other carrier at the moment has done so waiting for Qantas ULRs arrive for Project Sunrise. Thus currently the only carrier in the world to have First Class on the largest variant of the best-selling Airbus is the Japanese airline.

I write these impressions of mine while sitting on an A350/900, In the American company's Delta One headed to LAX, second leg of my around the world in 40h.

Of course, as always, full review and video will come in the coming months on the YT channel. Let's say it is a trailer of what it will be.

The service is not worth the price of the ticket, there are no turns of phrase and the reality is just that. If I pay 9k euros one way to fly in this cabin. I expect excellence in all aspects.

Instead at the airport in Paris, as in Tokyo, you're an ordinary peon. You don't have any special treatment, assistance or other. Too bad. the peons in economy paid 500 e you look like a coiones To quote Checco Zalone.

On board the music changes, but not entirely. The suite is spectacular, the closest thing to the Emirates Gamechanger Than on a single-decker plane, in my opinion, is the benchmark.

Here you feel first class: you can even choose the mattress to be used in bed mode.

Space is plenty, privacy at the level of the Singapore Suite, but power is nothing without control, e to make you feel FIRST CLASS you also need the service.

The bed is comfortable, the TV is huge, you're insulated and have everything at your fingertips, but you don't have Starlink, the speakers built into the headrest don't make sense, the economy passengers walk past you and take pictures as if I were a fish inside the Genoa Aquarium.

The food proposal is meh.... Two choices, zero options. You either eat Jap or you eat Western. The mediocre cellar with one exception.

Salon 2015, The most expensive champagne ever regularly served aboard an aircraft, too bad Is one bottle per flight, not per passenger. Emirates when offering Dom Perignon P2 is "unlimited" or at least until you empty the galley.

And if you're thinking "bum you paid the ticket 330€, again thank you that it was not fake" you have to understand that points also have a value and that the passenger does not have the stigma of "beggar flying with points" and then Is treated as those who paid full price.

I am happy to have tried it, it was one of the few Fs that I missed and the 5th first class of 2025, but I wouldn't do it again.

I took home a memory of this experience, because in the end. I am a lucky boy who has realized his dream, even if I come down with bitterness in my mouth. With this bottle I can drink to forget.

Instead, I am curious about flying in business class, equally wow, more affordable as a price e more affordable for all of us peons who read TFC, obviously always with the dots.

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