Yang Jing's ticket was on October 20 and was a British Airways flight from London Heathrow Airport to Yanjing International Airport.
Because Yang Jing was in a hurry to go home, he chose the only direct flight from London to Yanjing.
There are many flights from London to Yanjing, and this is the only one that can fly directly.
Now the international aviation industry is not very good, the use of four large wide-body passenger aircraft is getting less and less, with the continuous improvement of aircraft technology, the original four large aircraft flying intercontinental flights began to be gradually replaced by more advanced technology of two medium-sized passenger aircraft.
The biggest cost of passenger aircraft is fuel, although many two-engine medium-sized passenger aircraft have a range of more than 10,000 kilometers, but if you want to fly 10,000 kilometers without landing, the aircraft must take off in a full fuel state, that is, take off and fly with full load.
This kind of flight is very fuel-intensive, generally speaking, take-off and flight with a full load consume 40 more fuel than take-off and flight with half load.
In the current situation that the aviation industry is sluggish, the vast majority of international flights will choose to take off and fly at half load, and then rely on stopovers and refueling to reduce fuel consumption.
This is the main reason why even hotline routes like London to Yanjing are rarely operated by airlines that choose to fly non-stop.
However, the fact that there are few direct flights does not mean that there are no direct flights, at least British Airways has one direct flight a day from London to Yanjing, and Air China in China also has two direct flights a day.
However, when Yang Jing booked the ticket, there were no tickets for Air China's flights, and only a few tickets remained for British Airways flights.
The ticket that Yang Jing ordered in the evening was the ticket for this flight, and Yang Jing also booked a first-class ticket very luxuriously.
The price of this kind of direct flight is much higher than that of a connecting flight, after all, a direct flight only needs a little more than ten hours in the air to arrive in Yanjing from London, and the connecting flight is usually delayed on the road for more than 15 hours, and some flights are even delayed on the road for more than a day Yang Jing is now like an arrow, he really doesn't want to stay for a minute on the road, how can he order those transit and stopover flights?
Even if the ticket price of a direct flight is double or more than the price of a transit flight, Yang Jing doesn't care.
There's money in your pocket!
So Yang Jing ordered a direct flight from London to Yanjing by British Airways.
In view of the fact that when Yang Jing flew from Yanjing to London two years ago, in order to save money, he bought a domestic China Southern Airlines flight from Yanjing to London, because he was an international student, so the ticket price was cheap after the discount, only more than 3,400 yuan.
As a result, the sins suffered along the way were not mentioned.
Don't think that the seats on the plane are so comfortable, if you want to be comfortable, at least you have to be business class, economy class?
Don't even think about it.
It is no exaggeration to say that if you take economy class on a long-haul flight, its sourness is not much worse than that of a hard-seat car during the Spring Festival in China.
The hard-seat carriage is certainly very crowded during the Spring Festival in China, but you can still stand on it and occasionally move.
You can take the plane and take the economy class, that small space, you can't even stretch your legs, and then let you keep this position in the air for more than ten hours Think for yourself!
When he came to London two years ago, Yang Jing bought the economy class of China Southern Airlines for a cheap price, but counting the transit time, Yang Jing flew from Yanjing to London for nearly 20 hours, and almost didn't go crazy.
It's not that China Southern Airlines' flights are bad, in fact, China Southern Airlines' service is among the best among all domestic airlines.
It's just that the economy class of all planes is this punch, and there is no way.
You can't change economy class to business class, can you?
If you choose economy class, you must be prepared for abuse.
That experience has left Yang Jing with a huge area of psychiatrist, so this time when he returned to China, Yang Jing said that he was not willing to experience that experience again.
He's not short of money now, isn't a first-class ticket for a direct flight just over 10,000 pounds?
Buy!
Fools don't buy it!
Not to mention, although it costs a lot of money to buy a first-class cabin, the service received is top-notch.
First of all, let's say that after the security check at the airport, economy class passengers want to go through the security check, wait, just wait in line for at least half an hour, but if you hold a first-class ticket, hehe, you can go through the security check in five minutes at most - go through the first-class security lane.
The second is that when getting on the plane, first-class passengers also have a special boarding lane, so they don't have to squeeze a channel with other passengers.
It's good to say that a medium-sized passenger plane that can pull more than 200 people, but if you take an Airbus A380 that can pull more than 550 people, more than 400 people squeeze into a boarding gate, it is enough to make people collapse The plane used by Yang Jing on this flight is the latest Boeing 787-9 twin-engine medium-sized passenger plane, and because it is an international flight, there are as many as 24 first-class seats on this plane.
China Southern Airlines also has a Boeing 787, but most of the first class cabins of China Southern Airlines only have a measly four seats.
After entering the first-class cabin under the leadership of the flight attendant, Yang Jing was also shocked by the luxury of the first-class cabin.
It's a first-class cabin, it's so spacious!
The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has a 1-2-1 first-class seating layout, which means that there are four first-class seats in a row, one seat on the left and one near the porthole, and two seats next to each other in the middle.
There are six rows of such first-class seats.
You must know that the area occupied by the 24 seats in this area is almost one-third of the entire Boeing 787-9 cabin, and the remaining two-thirds of the cabin, 40 business class seats occupy half and 229 economy class seats occupy half.
In other words, the 24 seats in first class occupy the same area as the 229 economy class seats in the back!
Can it not be spacious?
The gap between first class and economy class is not only reflected in space, but also in fare.
The economy class ticket for this direct flight is also close to 15,000 yen, while the first class ticket is 84,000 yen!
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If you buy a first-class ticket, you can buy five economy class tickets and bring you a lot of money!
The first-class seats are all seats similar to small boxes, and when you want to be quiet, you can pull up the partitions to form a relatively closed small box.
Of course, if you want to mingle with a flight attendant or someone else, pull down the partition and it's a big sofa.
The seat that Yang Jing booked was the seat in the second row near the porthole in the front right, and the two seats in the middle were said to be even combined into a double bed ps: Bow and thank "Kunpeng 3357" for the 200 tip, "hgtyqas", "Ziyan Tianjiao", "Riding a turtle to heaven", "Seeing people in the lights" 100 tips!