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A Few Charts & Stats About First Class
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A Few Charts & Stats About First Class

There are more First Class seats flying than you might think

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Oliver Ranson
Apr 22, 2025
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Aviation is a bigger industry than people imagine. It is easy to feel that a plane is coming especially for you and a few others. In fact the scale is enormous. Even in First Class, more people are travelling than you might think.

On a normal Monday, 12-May-2025, there will be 8,390 First Class seats operating on 997 flights. And that is just the wide-bo…

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