• Skytrax conducted a passenger satisfaction survey to determine the best airlines to fly first class.
• Air France was named the best airline to fly first class for its 38-square-foot La Première suite.
• Airlines across the industry are adding more premium offerings to attract higher-paying customers.

As airlines across the industry bolster their premium offerings to attract higher-paying passengers, first-class amenities are only getting more luxurious.

In some first-class cabins, travelers can enjoy private suites with double beds and food by Michelin-starred chefs. Other airlines offer spacious pods with multiple seating options and headrests with built-in speakers.

Between September 2025 and August 2026, travelers from over 100 nationalities filled out an airline passenger satisfaction survey conducted by Skytrax, an aviation rating company, to determine the best airlines to fly first class.

Here are the winning first-class carriers in Skytrax's 2026 World Airline Awards.

10. Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways made the top 10 of Skytrax's ranking with amenities such as an à la carte menu, Diptyque amenity kits, and loungewear from The White Company.

9. Qantas Airways

First-class travelers on Qantas can enjoy perks like armchair seating with in-seat massages and a self-service bar and lounge.

8. ANA (All Nippon Airways)

First class on ANA includes sliding doors, lie-flat seats, and lavish meals featuring items such as sashimi, wagyu beef, and miso soup.

7. Japan Airlines

First-class suites on Japan Airlines' Airbus A350-1000s come with double beds, headrests with built-in speakers, wardrobes, and 43-inch TVs.

6. Swiss International Air Lines

Swiss International Air Lines' first-class cabins include armchairs that transform into lie-flat beds, pajamas designed by Zimmerli of Switzerland, and Cuvée Louise Champagne from Maison Pommery.

5. Cathay Pacific Airways

Cathay Pacific's first-class suites feature luxuries like 600-thread-count sheets, BOSE noise-canceling headphones, and an extensive wine selection.

4. Emirates

In addition to flying in private suites, first-class passengers on Emirates' Airbus A380 fleet also have access to a shower and lounge.

3. Lufthansa

In a 2023 press release unveiling Lufthansa's new first-class suites, Lufthansa Airlines CEO Jens Ritter said that the design "conveys the feeling of privacy and individuality similar to a hotel room." Skytrax named Lufthansa the third-best airline to fly first-class.

2. Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines' first-class suites are spacious enough for a bed plus a reclining chair, and two suites can be combined into a double for two people. It's the runner-up in Skytrax's ranking of the best first-class airlines.

1. Air France

Skytrax named Air France, whose first-class cabins offer a nearly 38-square-foot La Première suite and food created by Michelin-starred chefs, the best airline for first-class travel.

California Governor Gavin Newsom will spend more than $230 billion on a train that may never run, yet he won’t let a single trainload of Wyoming coal reach a port taxpayers already funded.

Last month, the California governor signed a bill to kill a coal export terminal in Oakland before it even opens. The project would be the West Coast’s first terminal, a direct link between Wyoming miners and buyers across the globe who want affordable, reliable power. President Trump backed it this summer with $75 million through the Defense Production Act. Far-left politicians in Sacramento responded to this historical investment with a new layer of environmental review written to stall the project until its investors give up.

California Democrats introduced the bill immediately after the president’s announcement. The bill’s author sold it as a way to block coal and defy the president. At least she was honest about her intentions.

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The Oakland terminal spent years navigating the gauntlet of California’s burdensome regulatory and legal regime. The project passed environmental review, among the most punishing in the country. Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in the site, including more than $240 million from California taxpayers. After years of litigation, all won by the developers, the City of Oakland conceded and began advancing development of the terminal.

California politicians didn’t like the result — so they changed the rules.

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That should alarm anyone who builds anything in California, whatever they think of coal. America and the world need affordable, available, reliable energy. If lawmakers can void a permit retroactively because they dislike the product or the president who supports it, no approval in the state is safe. Today it is Wyoming coal. Tomorrow it could be an oil refinery, a manufacturing facility or a housing development that runs afoul of Sacramento’s political priorities.

The governor further revealed his extreme priorities that same day when he vetoed another bill to speed up the hiring of auditors for California’s high-speed rail project. California spent $15 billion over 18 years. It has failed to lay a single mile of track.

California promised voters a passenger line connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020 for a cost of $33 billion. It is now estimated to cost between $126 to $231 billion with completion not expected until 2040.

When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revoked $4 billion in federal grants to California’s bullet train boondoggle last year, Newsom sued and lost. He still defends the wasteful spending. Meanwhile, California Democrats continue to sacrifice economic growth, jobs and taxpayer dollars at the altar of climate extremism.

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Wyoming offers the opposite model. We sit atop more than 600 years of coal reserves. Demand for electricity across Asia is climbing fast. Those nations will burn coal whether California approves of it or not. The only question is whose coal. American coal offers the United States an abundance of affordable, reliable power here at home and enhanced diplomatic leverage abroad.

Wyoming will not sit quietly while California politicians attempt to shut our energy producers out of global markets. Wyoming has made clear that we will use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to defend our state and its industries. Wyoming coal supports families and communities across our state, strengthens America’s energy security and can help meet enormous global demand for reliable energy.

This fight is bigger than coal. California has already driven out its builders and manufacturers. Now it wants to export its dysfunction to every state that relies on its port.

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Wyoming will keep mining. California can keep its train.

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis is a Republican from Wyoming who sits on the Senate Banking, Commerce, and Environment and Public Works committees. 

Harriet Hageman, a Republican, is the lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming.