First Class Passengers are the few cosmopolites and privileged mega-rich.
History
First Class Passengers are the few cosmopolites and privileged mega-rich guests who bought an exclusive one-way ticket from Wilford Industries or invested early in the project. Among them are the world's richest and most influential, members of high society and the international elite, some of whom were industrial tycoons responsible for global warming before the Freeze.
This select category of ticketed passengers had the highest social status aboard Snowpiercer:
- They enjoyed a mostly limitless variety of daily calories and rare products such as alcohol.
- They had access to most of the train sections without limitation.
- They live up-train, close to the Engine Car, in spacious accommodations with luxurious amenities, and each family has its own double-decker carriage.
- Some of them enjoy the company of their pets.
- Some brought along their help, mostly armed bodyguards.
- They also had unlimited reproductive rights.
Personality
Many First Class Passengers attempted to live as if there was no significant change in the world's environment. A feature of that alienated lifestyle was their tendency to make complaints and demands to Hospitality, arguably in outright denial of how autocratic the governance of Snowpiercer ultimately was.
Ironically enough, the First Class Dining Car can fit a bit more than 32 guests, which represents about 1% of Snowpiercer's population.
Throughout the Series
Known 1st Class Passengers
- Lilah Folger, a former lawyer, her husband Robert, daughter Lilah Jr and their bodyguard Erik Sotto. Aside from LJ, the Folgers were killed in the First Snowpiercer War. A year later, LJ choked to death.
- Rajiv Sharma, Chairman of the First Class Committee, his wife, and son (and daughter?).
- Members of a Scandinavian Royal Family.
- Martin Colvin, his Cantonese husband York Lam, and their two sons Gavin and Murray. Martin was later an accidental stowaway on the Pirate Train.
- Early investor Eugenia. Executed for her role in the murders of the Breachmen.
- Edith Gusterfeld (#1097).
- The Schwartzes, a chic couple in their eighties who take cyanide the morning that the Tallies took the train. Mr. Schwartz was an international architect before the Freeze.
- Jackboot Stu Whiggins, who is forced to work as a Jackboot when First Class is temporarily decommissioned by Mr. Wilford. He spends most of time drinking in the Night Car.