In early 2020 I'm hoping to continue my late 2019 trend of lots of useful airline reviews, so I'm trying to get the year off to a good start. A few days ago I wrote about how I booked a trip that included Starlux Airlines' new A321neo business class, Philippine Airlines' new A350 business class,…
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Just booked ANA F out of Houston next November. I understand nothing is published in regards to the new cabins other than NYC, London and Frankfurt, but would it make sense to infer that the remaining 212 seat cabins are retrofitted before the larger cabins? Can I at least think in my head I have a 5% chance of getting the new seat or is even that small chance a stretch?
For the sake of your body I hope to heck you will do longer layover times than the US-HKG-Beijing trip earlier this month. 5 hours in-between at an airport hotel on these crazy routings is asking for trouble physically.
Really looking forward to the ANA reviews. As well to learn what service variations Lufthansa has on its Asian fights vs U.S.
You should review the Senator Cafe in Munich. Probably the smallest Star Alliance Gold lounge, but also one of the nicest.
Ben, I'm looking forward to reading what you think about the LH A350-900. I flew on it last year and found the Business Class seats to be extremely uncomfortable (even when sitting down, they feel angled) though I was fortunate to be in the mini-J section by myself and the cabin crew was truly A+.
Wait, Air Canada Aeroplan has fixed their IT issues and now you can book award tickets through them again?
I was in Lufthansa business class this week BOS-FRA and FRA-BOS on 747-400. No mattress pads or pajamas were offered. Granted, I didn't request them, but I also haven't seen anyone else using them.
Ben, looking forward to your reviews.
PVG-SEA is pretty open on the new a330-neo. Position from Tokyo to there and take the DL a330 neo home?
@SBS: of course not, your flight was to short. We are talking about a 5 star airline. 😉 You get mattress pads and pajamas (only the top) on flights longer than 10:30 hours. You'll need to fly LAX-MUC, than you'll get it. But don't expect to much. And I hope you didn't have spoiled food as I had on my last flight.
I’m also flying ANAs 777 on LHR-HND in first... imagine if we were on the same flight!
The Aeroplan search engine always results in an error message. This has been going on for weeks. Is there another way to book Aeroplan awards that I'm not aware of??
Suggestion: can you add a summary section of your actual series of segments that you are flying? I might be dumb but it is sometimes just not easy and clear to follow your routing for someone not involved in the booking process. A short summary itinerary section like this: JFK-LHR-HND... etc. Would be just great 🙂 thanks and all the best for the new year on these exciting trips 🙂
Looking forward to the Delta 777 review. flying to Australia on VA in The Business and returning to the US on DL in Delta One. Can’t wait for that!
I wish you’d do KLM’s 787-10 in business with the JAMCO seats. I’m taking that from Toronto to Amsterdam as part of a South Africa trip too.
In my opinion (and most people according to SKYTRAX) the best business class is the Qsuite and secondly ANA's new business class suites
@Lucky, could you please do an article about what business class suites are out there
@Lucky Looking forward to it. What I'd be interested to know is how the ANA New F compares to the New J - is the J hard product so good that it cannibalises the F? Thanks!
Looking forward to this! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! 🙂
@Betty - I've done that exact flight (LAX-MUC) in LH C four times this year and was given the pretty good mattress pad each time but never the PJs, even though I've asked for it every time. Was told that the flight didn't leave LAX late enough to be considered a "night flight" 🙂 Typical Lufthansa.
Did you forget to include the final leg MSP-MIA on Sun Country? They do have that new paint job you know.
Eric is right - you have to fly Sun Country out of MSP, Lucky. Don't deny your fans your take on them!
@Lucky, you continue to amaze me with your ingenuity and discipline. These routings and products look great -- just remember to set aside some time for yourself as mentioned upthread. Thank you again for providing us with such high quality on such a timely schedule. You really are next level.
It's a shame you could not get the Delta Airbus A330-900neo. There is something just so sexy about that aircraft lol
Not sure if you are overnighting in Tokyo but I have been failing at booking the Tokyo station hotel (SLH) in gold passport points and failing. I’d live to see if you have better luck.
@betty and the other Lufthansa geeks! I was in Lufthansa business class 2 weeks ago from Orlando to FRA on 747-400. No mattress pads or pajamas were offered. The food was pretty taste but - what surprised me a lot - two cabin crew ladies on the upper deck were very old, very ugly, very sad and not polite. I know that nowadays my opinion about their age and appearance could sound unpolite, but believe me, not only as a gay I would like to be in good hands of good looking crew members with smile, who would safe my live ( these fat ladies rather would not be good swimmers). And they were unpolite, and they looked very bored, and they did her job with No enthusiasm. Nothing what I see in Qatar or Emirates or... Lufthansa before.
So Ben, looking forward to your reviews with much interest.
You will love ANA new first class as the overhead air nozzles can literally blow you away
@Ben
Not sure when your HND-MSP flight is planned but I have booked the DeltaOne Suite (B777-200) their new JFK-BOM-JFK route.
Hope to compare notes with you.
I flew Lufthansa's A350 business class Vancouver to Munich in October and they did not have pajamas or mattress pad. It was the best arctic char I've had on a plane though!
I flew Lufthansa's A359 business class the other day between Denver and Munich. It's a bad hard product, but we know that already. Soft product is generally pretty decent.
From Frankfurt to London you can fly LATAM to Madrid to see how that's holding up, then fly BA's 777 to London...