I had my first taste of Business Class hardware when I was serving my mandatory 2.5 years in the army. A fellow unitmate and I were attached to the Officer Cadet School (OCS), where a cohort of cadets was on the way to Taiwan for the topography exercise.
The Singapore Armed Forces kindly chartered a China Airlines jet. While the officers-to-be all sat in Economy Class, their trainers and the bunch of us, all attached signallers, had the luxury of flying in Business Class. I was sitting in the upper deck of the Boeing 747. But service was next to nothing, since this was a non-commercial flight. After the trip, I heard from some of my outside friends they actually flew in the C-130 on overseas exercises.
As for my first commercial Buiness Class flight, it happened in May 2005, when a vendor invited me to Las Vegas for an event. The trip manifested itself as a Singapore Airlines Raffles Class experience on SQ20, operated with the Airbus 340-500.
The Singapore Armed Forces kindly chartered a China Airlines jet. While the officers-to-be all sat in Economy Class, their trainers and the bunch of us, all attached signallers, had the luxury of flying in Business Class. I was sitting in the upper deck of the Boeing 747. But service was next to nothing, since this was a non-commercial flight. After the trip, I heard from some of my outside friends they actually flew in the C-130 on overseas exercises.
As for my first commercial Buiness Class flight, it happened in May 2005, when a vendor invited me to Las Vegas for an event. The trip manifested itself as a Singapore Airlines Raffles Class experience on SQ20, operated with the Airbus 340-500.
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