My airplane prayers have been answered. Back in October I wrote a post entitled "EVA Air gives Seattle a taste of the good life… but not for long." EVA Air presently flies to Seattle five times weekly using a 747-400, and the issue with that is that their 747s feature their ancient business class product…
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nice! i was lucky enough to catch Royal Laurel on one of those SEA temporary 777s in the fall. glad to see Royal Laurel expanding to more cities.
(but yes, definitely also do Royal Laurel on a Hello Kitty plane -- great stuff! http://first2board.com/wanderlusty/2013/11/24/kawaii-overload-eva-airways-hello-kitty-jet-x-2-business-class/ )
"get a good night of sleep on the plane"
Good for you if you can do this. For people like me who can't sleep or at least can't sleep well on a plane that schedule doesn't sound so great.
I can sleep in a good flat seat, but SEA TPE is nearly 13 hours. I can't sleep that long.
I'd much prefer to leave earlier, enjoy a leisurely dinner, have a few more drinks, then get as much sleep as I can manage. Leaving at 2am means being too tired to enjoy doing that, assuming they are even serving a full meal at the beginning of the flight.
Even for those of us who can sleep 6 hours on a plane, if you go to sleep right away on this flight, when you wake up that's another 7 hours of just sitting there waiting to arrive. I'd much prefer to break that up into 2 shorter segments.
Arriving in Taipei at 5 am doesn't sound too great either.
On the other hand, TPE LAX is only 11:30 hours, departing at 18:30 arriving LAX at 1:30. That sounds about perfect.
@ ncSam -- Hah, well we're losing the first class cabin on Lufthansa around the same time, so it's a wash I'd say. Might just move to a city that has Lufthansa first class AND EVA Air Royal Laurel Class.
@ Andy -- Yes, the only Hello Kitty service to the US is a few times a week to Los Angeles.
any idea if regional EVA 777-300 also have royal laurel or is it a different product?
@ turgutbey -- Well EVA Air doesn't have any regionally configured 777-300ERs. They're all longhaul configured. A majority of them have the new Royal Laurel Class product, while a few of them still have their old business class. To be sure it's the new product you can look at the seatmap. If business class is in a 1-2-1 configuration, then it's the new product. If it's in a 2-3-2 configuration it's the old product.
What do you mean you won't be no longer in Seattle? Where are going to? Moving back to Germany? Don't do that...we still need you here!!
Ah, all good news. So now this adds another decent TPAC option for *A awards (assuming you can swallow the devaluation…which we all will have to soon enough). Hmm….I need to look into how this would work out connecting to onward legs beyond TPE (BKK, MLE, DPS, etc.). But it's always nice to know there's another good option out of SEA to get across the ocean in a nice seat (with good availability).
Not sure if the schedule isn't right or if they really are going back to the 787 but after mid November the 777 isn't on the schedule at UA.com.
i felt like i was being ripped off, with being stuck on the 747-400s premium laurel, from vancouver to taipei, but in a 777 royal laurel from taipei to singapore, so i had to do a search, i'm not sure if i feel any better now :/ not only are the seats horrible on the 747 but the service is too compared to the 777