Korean Air 777 Business Class In 10 Pictures

Hi ben
What sort of disease prevention do you take when visiting these third world countries?

How does the airline justify an abbreviated meal service on an 8 hour international business class cabin? Thai Airways serves a 5 course meal on that length. There has to be value for money in a business transaction.

What is that green blob on the cod? Is that the pesto? Or does the foil contain the pesto cream sauce? Regardless, it looks like a green turd and not appetizing in the least...

The cod dish looks great. The broccoli and red onion look delicious.

Would be interesting to see a full shot of the 777 against the small airport.

I was given a first class seat on an award ticket on the 747 from Auckland to ICN. They seemed to put Biz in first and then use biz for oversold economy. When I checked in I was at first really upset I was moved from the upper deck. But the gate agent assured me I would be happy and gave me 1A.

I sleep like a baby in the seats with slight angle. Even better than the lie flats. I usually angle the lie flats up a bit

I'd highly recommend OR2K and Mahaaja while you're in Kathmandu!

Most airlines, if there are empty seats in your cabin, let you change seats.

I know you wanted to review the business class experience, but do you think you could have moved to an empty first class seat if you wanted to?

@flynforfun omg hahahah im sure your question came out of innocence but it was hilarious to read.

@ Lucky- I have a question. On the real though, you fly so much, visit hundreds of airports & fly in countless aircrafts-do you ever get sick? Or do you prevent getting sick by taking something? Being exposed to so many germs/diseases around the world has to have some sort of effect on the body?

*Also- do you take any medicine for jetlag, or is your body always on american time, how do you deal with jetlag?

i bet they served the same main dish in economy also.
for the past 2 and a half years, i must have been on over 20 segments of KE prestige. their food offerings were very underwhelming to say the least. but the servers are different story.

American pilots can fly for Asian carriers like KE until 70. Forced retirement in US at 65, so many continue flying for foreign carriers. An American captain over 65 flying for KE though cannot fly into the US. This may be why you're seeing American captains on intra Asia routes and not the longer US routes. Just a theory...

@SEAN Even though the retirement age may be higher KE only hires foreign captains under 55, or at most 60 years of age. Could just be that most local captains will have higher seniority in the company being career KE and can bid onto long-haul routes/bigger planes.
Other explanation I can think of is foreign captains are directly hired onto the shorter haul types as PIC and those on long-haul could be mainly used as cruise-relief captains, therefore not making any PAs.

I had the same catering, identical dishes flying ICN-SIN last week. Instead of the Western dish I opted for the bibimbap, which was delicious. I've had bad bibimbap in KE J before, so I was wary. This time it was much better. Despite the catering being good, I have found Korean to have a very overrated airline. The lounges are horrible throughout the entire network. The flight attendants, while selected to be beautiful young Korean girls in nice uniforms, are a little unpolished/untrained on service. Drinks are always room temperature or warm, even the Champagne. The hard product in business is also extremely mediocre and in terrible configurations, outside of a few like the Apex suite (which is only good if you have window!). While F availability is nice for people with a million hoarded miles, J has been consistently underwhelming for me on them.

flynforfun = Credit under a different name?

Those seats are better for sleeping than they look. My main gripe is a lack of a lidded storage area for nightstand stuff like your glasses. That little narrow open pocket is one klutz handed slip away can from something small going down inside the seat pod and being impossible to retrieve.

I find food is meh on KE J especially if you are unwilling to risk the Korean option due to delicate constitution. But the cabin crew, if you can understand them, are always immaculate and delightful. The personal 'thank you' at the end of the trip caps it off.

Roll on an Apex suite window segment.