We spent the night at the Sheraton Gateway LAX, which is my favorite airport hotel at LAX. They are great with upgrading Platinum members to suites, the beds are extremely comfortable, and they actually have a restaurant-quality... restaurant! Which is rather rare for an airport hotel... Ironically enough this was my one stay where I…
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I guess that wasn't too tough? 😉
@ Embla -- American collects UNICEF donations pre-landing on international flights, so there's always an announcement by the "UNICEF team leader" talking about what UNICEF does.
I do love that they make your bed now, and offer pajamas, I enjoyed my AA F pajamas flying business class MIA-GRU overnight. They are comfy indeed.
But the F food is not much different than what is served in back, albeit plated differently. The halibut when properly cooked is quite good and I am very happy with it as a business class meal.
The amenity kits really ought to be differentiated in F as well.
Sadly AA is getting rid of F in all but their 773s...
I never eat fish on an airplane and I've had many colleagues who belatedly wished they had not either.
I would guess that the Tea bag should NOT be in your diet coke drink!!!
Thank you for the article! I would love to see a comparison on all the first class services for the domestic airlines on the international routes like this one. Thanks again!
is it just me or does the food in the US based First Classes equal, at best the food of a typical EU or Asian C class? My latest meals on LX C were miles better that what I see on this picture...
Ben, what is the "Flagship check-in area" at LAX? I fly international first on AA a fair bit and I've always just used the same first class check-in as I do when flying anywhere in any class as an EXP. Do you mean I can get escorted through security by a porter? Where? How? 😉
@ zeffer -- It's only available at LAX. It's a separate private entrance with private check-in and a porter.
@ Lucky - Cool, thanks. Although I'm a bit miffed that no first class check-in agent has ever told me about it. I fly out of T4 to JFK in F quite a lot.
Today in the news there is an article about the Flagship check in at MIA airport. There is no such area at JFK that I know of
2 things wrong the the Diet Coke & nuts.
1. Lemon instead of lime.
2. Tea bag in glass.
Nice trip report!
I think BA has a config of the 777 (their old ones, G-ZZZA/B/C) which are 17F...
Do you get any sort of fast track through customs? All the flights from N.America seem to arrive around the same time and I always get long lines when arriving at NRT.
@ Mike S. -- Sadly no fast track. I agree lines are usually long around that time, though surprisingly there was no wait this time around.
Mainly elderly leisure travelers? Does that mean it's mainly AA retirees on travel privileges?
@ Carl -- The cabin was mostly full a few days out, so I doubt they were non-revs.
Something else "wrong" with the picture-a departure on 7L. That's unusual, at least for that time of year
@ Eddy -- Sure, it would cost 75,000 miles one-way in first class (or 50,000 miles in business or 25,000 miles in coach), plus taxes and fuel surcharges.
I'm surprised the gate area at LAX looks so calm and deserted...the SFO gates for Asian flights are usually super crowded.
Nice to see the Canadian Niagara Ice wine offered on AA! It is one of the best in the world!
We were on the same flight last year, the week before they started handing out the pajamas.
We had CX first on the way back, still a world of difference between AA and CX first class.
Those bose headsets are really cool, it was fun just switching the quiet mode on and off for the first few minutes.
@ JetAway - Fish on plane is totally fine, in a matter of fact, the first time I ever had halibut was on UA ORD-HKG in F, it was perfectly cooked ! I never knew how smooth and tasty the halibut was, it made me want halibut all the time now !