We boarded through door L1 at around 3:25AM. We presented our boarding passes to the cabin supervisor, who pointed us to the far aisle. For the most part Saudia has outdated premium cabin hard products, with their international first class product looking more like business class, and their business class looking 10 years past its…
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The first bunch of A330-300 regionals will be delivered on August 18, and guess what? Their business class looks different from both the 787s and 777s.
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(Still waiting for a response to my question, I haven't forgotten
If you have a seatbelt airbag it is not required to have a 3-point seat belt. You can muse the "normal" two point one with included seatbelt airbag
Prawns salad and hot chocolate? Just thinking about it makes me sick. Maybe i'm too much italian for those kind of things.
For me, one of the highlights of business or first class is the premium wine and other alcohol. So no thanks to Saudia or any of the other strict Muslim airlines. I don't care how good the rest of it is.
Ben... What do you think about the table position of the super diamond seat? I just flew on the Air Canada 787 from Toronto to Seoul yesterday and when I put the seat in bed mode, every time I try to turn (toss) from left shoulder to right shoulder sleep position, my knees will hit the table. There is simple no way around it, it make it very restricting when you are trying to turn and toss around in bed. I have experience the same with other business class seat where your feet and leg is put inside a cuppy hole... The only seat that doesn't have this issue is the Cirrus seat which is why I still think the Zodiac Cirrus seat is still the best business class eat out there at the moment for sleeping. Having said that I do find the B/E aerospace super diamond seat had much better finishing then the Zodiac seat from different airline.
Totally agree with commend posted by Stuart. I would never travel a Dry Airline no matter how good the hard product is. Its one of the joys of travelling First & Business. Sampling all the fine wines and spirits, especially the Wines
Hey Ben. About those tissues and the lack of paper towels in the lavatories... I was informed by an Air Asia manager (they too only provide tissues in their lavs) that the reason for this was that some passengers were putting the paper towels into the toilets and clogging up the works (whereas tissues generally do not).
@lucky - technically, that's not a TUI 787. It's a Thomson Airways 787 (Thomson being the principal UK subsidiary of the broader TUI group, which is why the livery is the same...apart from the name, which you can't see in your photo). Great report, thanks!
@mkcol - I don't really get your point. So far as I am aware, the future and the present are two different things. At the moment (at least as far as the 787-8 fleet is concerned - and the photo is a 787-8), it trades in the UK as Thomson. Quite why TUI think the re-brand is a good idea is a whole different story...
To anyone who cares so much about Alcohol, all I have to say is that your life is shallow.
Speedbird, I don't have a problem if you don't like to drink but insulting people who do is not cool or tolerant.
Airlines should offer booze and anyone who doesn't want any doesn't have to have any. The issue isn't even the lack of drink but the lack of choice.
"These reverse herringbone seats have shoulder harnesses you have to wear during takeoff and landing. Some airlines have these, while others don’t — I still haven’t figured out what about an aircraft’s certification causes this to be required (if anyone knows, I’d love to hear it!)."
Lucky,
It's not a certification requirement anywhere for that category of aircraft that I am aware of (and I work doing crash survivability research so I am aware of quite a few; shoulder restraints are required in virtually all new light aircraft). It is just that some airlines are more proactive in offering torso restraints which are far superior to any lap belt only configuration. This is not one I would have expected honestly.
Hello,
Regarding the snack, it is written in the menu,
Flexibility of managing your individual time in flight..
I guess its mean you have to order your snack any time you like. yet crew should inform passengers about it.
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On behalf of everyone here in Saudi I'd like to apologize for Jeddah's airport (I'm from Riyadh but I've arrived/departed/transited through Jeddah and it was horrifying even as a Saudi citizen...it makes Riyadh's airport seem like Emirates first class lounge :P) and a new airport is opening in Jeddah (God knows when it's opening...maybe in under a year?).
Hi Ben..
Prawn with Hot Chocolate? Hmmmm.... SAUDI Arabian airlines really that bad, huh.. Well, will try to avoid.
Stupid who said don't treat me like a kid because of no booze onboard, serving booze is forbidden in Islam , selling,, stocking, making, marketing, gifting all forbidden even to non-Muslim guests.
@FRANKLIN, he praised this segment of the trip with the airline, there were few negatives, read again or did you just skim and focus on negative bits?
Hi, this week SAUDIA made an oficial presentation for an strategic plan to become a 5 stars airline. Do you have more information about what the are going to offer and/or change?
@Lucky,which reverse herringbone seat do you prefer b/e super diamond or cirrus style sets?