Premier Travel

I remember the first time I came to London some years ago when I was upgraded to business class and the seat, two to a row was similar but larger than economy class with slightly bigger leg room, the flight stopped at Frankfurt, distracting the journey and the immigration queue at Heathrow was incredibly long and most of the officers were elderly white and stiff. Terminal 3 was then under construction and the entry and walk to the immigration check was interminable. My second business class travel was more or less the same except the stop was at Dubai where I wasted some money as the duty-free shopping of high quality items were cheap.

My recent business class travel was something else. The seat was now fully electronic and could be reclined to any position from flat to any angle most comfortable to you and the TV monitor followed you. Such luxury in the air no wonder despite the cost, it was difficult to get a business class seat! The cabin was full. Moreover the flight is nonstop, no more distraction, financial and physical and less jet lag problems and before disembarkation you are given a "premier lane" immigration check form, you virtually breeze through, no more vexing long queue. The plane landed at 5.20am local time and I was out at the meeting point just before 6am.... incredible. In the past it wouldn't be before 9am and I remember how our bags were waiting for us, scattered on the floor! This time we were waiting for our bags.

Custom check was conveniently through the green lane. The arrival was pleasant to say the least and hardly a muscle ached despite the nearly 13-hour journey. Indeed for the businessman or woman and anyone else , that was really premier travel!