Garuda Indonesia 777-300ER (First, 314 seats)

A small cabin of enclosed suites with sweeping pitch, fully flat beds and direct aisle access, flown only on the airline's flagship routes. It is one of the few true First cabins remaining in the region, and the map shows exactly where it sits.

The seat is the same fully flat product, but the cabin is much longer, which gives you a real choice of position: forward rows for the quick exit, middle rows for quiet. The longer cabin also puts more distance between the calmest rows and either galley.

Forward of the wing at a window or aisle if you can, in a divider row if legroom is the priority. The middle seat of any trio is the one to escape: it leaves you climbing past a stranger on a long overnight sector.