Steve, I made that same call fifteen years ago - never again in coach! It has been exclusively first class ever since.
But my favorite airline (Alaska) recently changed their first class cabin. They took out the closet and smashed four rows of seats into what used to be three rows. You get the nicer seat, but the same seat pitch (distance between rows) as in coach. $1700 spent for a first class seat to Anchorage, and I had to ask for a wheelchair on the other end because my knees would not move any more after being smashed into the seat in front of me for 3½ hours.
While I'm not ready to hang it up professionally just yet, if I had to travel for work......I would retire tomorrow.
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