Which Routes Feature ANA’s New Boeing 777 Cabins?

Which Routes Feature ANA’s New Boeing 777 Cabins?

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In the summer of 2019, Japanese Star Alliance carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) revealed an all new first & business class product. In this post I wanted to take an updated look at ANA’s progress with installing these new cabins, especially with the summer 2023 travel season starting shortly.

With Japan having reopened its borders to visitors from around the globe, I know many people are once again planning trips on ANA, so hopefully many OMAAT readers will be able to enjoy the carrier’s new cabins.

Basics of ANA’s new first & business class

All Nippon Airways’ new first class & business class products are truly spectacular. ANA has always had incredible service, and now the airline finally has a hard product to match.

All Nippon Airways’ new first class, known as “The Suite,” is phenomenal. The hard product as such doesn’t look that amazing, but it’s a huge improvement over the old product. First class has eight very comfortable suites, each of which is functionally designed and private. Personally I rank this as the world’s third best first class, thanks largely to ANA’s top notch soft product.

All Nippon Airways new 777 first class
All Nippon Airways new 777 first class

All Nippon Airways’ new business class, known as “The Room,” is really what’s most revolutionary. The seats have doors and an unreal amount of personal space. I consider this to be one of the world’s two best business class products, along with Qatar Airways Qsuites.

All Nippon Airways new 777 business class
All Nippon Airways new 777 business class

Which flights have ANA’s new first & business class?

While there are certain markets where All Nippon Airways consistently offers the new cabins, we have seen some variance. Of course the pandemic has changed airline strategy, and that applies to aircraft scheduling as well.

So let me share the basics of how many ANA 777s have the new cabins, how you can tell if your flight features the new cabins, and finally which routes currently feature the new cabins (though of course that’s subject to change).

How many ANA 777s have new first & business class?

All Nippon Airways has 15 Boeing 777-300ERs in its fleet. Nine of the 15 jets currently feature the new cabins, meaning that 60% of ANA’s 777-300ERs have the new first & business class. Six of these planes have been delivered to the airline since 2019, with the new cabins, while three 777-300ERs have been reconfigured with the new cabins (these planes are 10+ years old).

Unfortunately ANA doesn’t have any concrete plans to reconfigure the remaining six 777-300ERS in the near future, so don’t expect this product’s footprint to grow much for the time being. ANA is expected to eventually take delivery of new 777-9s, which will likely feature this product (or something even better), though that’s still several years down the road.

If you want to track registration codes, the following nine Boeing 777-300ERs feature the new cabins:

Nine ANA Boeing 777-300ERs feature new cabins

How can you tell if an ANA flight has the new cabins?

You can tell whether or not your flight is scheduled to feature All Nippon Airways’ new cabins just by looking at the seatmap. The easiest way to tell is to look at the business class seatmap:

  • The new business class cabin has 64 seats, while the old cabin has either 52 or 68 seats
  • If the business class cabin goes to row 20, then it’s the new business class; otherwise it’s the old business class
Business class on reconfigured 777s goes to row 20

If you’re on ANA’s website and a flight is scheduled to be operated with the new cabins, you’ll also see the prominent display of “THE SUITE” for first class and “THE ROOM” for business class.

ANA’s website shows when a flight features new cabins

Again, it’s only select Boeing 777-300ERs that have these cabins. You won’t find these cabins on other aircraft, including 787s, A380s, etc.

Which routes have ANA’s new 777 cabins?

With Japan having fully reopened its borders, ANA is more or less back to operating its pre-pandemic schedule. The airline is, however, facing some challenges due to the closure of Russian airspace, which is making some routes significantly longer than pre-pandemic.

Here are the routes that are expected to be operated by the new Boeing 777-300ERS for the 2023 summer schedule (which runs from late March until late October):

  • Tokyo Haneda (HND) to London (LHR) for NH211/212
  • Tokyo Haneda (HND) to New York (JFK) for NH109/110 and NH159/160
  • Tokyo Haneda (HND) to San Francisco (SFO) for NH107/108

In other words, as it stands, all flights to London and New York, as well as select flights to San Francisco, will feature the new cabins for the summer 2023 schedule. Unfortunately unlike in winter, Chicago and Los Angeles won’t be seeing service from planes with the new cabins.

ANA’s incredible first class catering

Bottom line

All Nippon Airways introduced a phenomenal new first & business class in 2019, and the airline has rolled this out to 60% of its 777-300ER fleet. Unfortunately at this point there are no plans to reconfigure more jets with these cabins.

For the summer 2023 schedule, you can expect the new cabins to be offered all flights to London and New York, as well as on select flights to San Francisco. While you’ll always want to check the seatmap for changes or aircraft swaps, that’s the current general plan.

If you’ve flown ANA’s new 777s, what was your experience like?

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  1. Danny Guest

    Hopefully, ANA brings "The Room" back to ORD after Oct.31st. Does anyone know when the schedule will be posted for winter?

  2. Alex Guest

    wanted to ask is it confirmed based on the links of registered flights there is no "the room" available from Chicago to NRT/HND anymore. Looking to book for Sept 2023 and not seeing anything from Chicago, only something from LAX?

    1. CK Guest

      I booked a flight for "The Room" last Nov. for this Nov. out of ORD and a week after I booked it, I got an email saying the aircraft got changed and it won't be available but a few people on reddit said there is a chance it might change back since they haven't posted the winter schedule yet. Unfortunately I have no clue when they post it

  3. Jesper Guest

    Hi Ben,

    Voting this the top two business class seats, have you noticed that the table is uncomfortably high compared to the seat for dining, that you need to sleep at an angle for for most heights as the sleeping surface is not long enough killing the practical usable space, and that the ottoman is higher than the seat surface in fully reclined position? And countless fliers complain about the sleeping surface being rock hard,...

    Hi Ben,

    Voting this the top two business class seats, have you noticed that the table is uncomfortably high compared to the seat for dining, that you need to sleep at an angle for for most heights as the sleeping surface is not long enough killing the practical usable space, and that the ottoman is higher than the seat surface in fully reclined position? And countless fliers complain about the sleeping surface being rock hard, even with the flimsy mattress pad. This seat, while having the same basic bones as Q Suites is far from great.

  4. corpkid Member

    Just snagged a close-in J seat JFK-HND in 2 weeks. The trick with ANA is 1) close-in is always better than far away and 2) use Aeroplan to book it (more flexibility in ALMOST all regards).

  5. Chris L Guest

    In Dec 2022, i have gotten myself the NEW FIRST from CHICAGO TO TOKYO HANEDA, and it was clearly branded as THE SUITE. Now they took all the new 777 out of chicago leaving me with this crappy old First.

    Ben, how likely do you think they will reinstate the NEW 777 to Chicago in winter 2023/24??

    1. Jerry Guest

      I have experienced both the old and the new 777 suite. The new suite bed has too many bumps. it is not very comfortable. The surface not very smooth. I vastly prefer the old suite bed. The new suite has bigger TV and the meaningless door. NO big deal.

  6. chris Guest

    Why do so many people have a difficult time comprehending that just because it isn't useful to them, doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone? I was going to have to for this next week while trying to book a JAL flight via Alaska Air. This was useful for me

  7. kq747 Member

    Thanks Ben- I was legit googling for a post on this exact subject this morning

  8. Loco Guest

    If anybody wants to roll the dice on the waitlist - ANA the Suite is available HNL - NRT from about 3/29 to 4/19. Have no idea what the chances of it clearing the waitlist (probably zero??)

  9. Terry Terajima Guest

    I looked via the ANA website for various routes (SFO/LAX/IAD) using ANA points and almost every route is first listed AVAILABLE and when you try and book it, it becomes WAITLISTED.

    Also looked out as far as FALL and everything is booked as WAITLISTED. Is that really possible? At least JAL has flights and also one way awards available throughout the next few months.

    Can anyone shed some insight on this near impossible use of...

    I looked via the ANA website for various routes (SFO/LAX/IAD) using ANA points and almost every route is first listed AVAILABLE and when you try and book it, it becomes WAITLISTED.

    Also looked out as far as FALL and everything is booked as WAITLISTED. Is that really possible? At least JAL has flights and also one way awards available throughout the next few months.

    Can anyone shed some insight on this near impossible use of mileage/points.

    Calling ANA is a nightmare, 2 hour wait times during all times of the day.

    Thanks in advance!

    1. Clem Diamond

      Yeah, there is barely any ANA award availability right now, it's been like this since the end of the pandemic. Even before, it wasn't easy to find availability but it was possible with a little flexibility and research, but now it's mostly all gone. They are probably selling those seats for cash and have no need to make award inventory available.

    2. corpkid Member

      You have to look very close-in. Like next 3-4 weeks. At least that's been my experience...

    3. Dag Guest

      I managed to book a Sydney -Haneda, Haneda-Frankfurt with Lufthansa miles on ANA in business. It took me about 4 weeks of trying different dates and I booked the flights a year in advance - in February 2023 for February 2024. You need a lot of patience to book an ANA award flight but it’s possible with a little perseverance. I managed to book the same route in business on ANA also last year, about...

      I managed to book a Sydney -Haneda, Haneda-Frankfurt with Lufthansa miles on ANA in business. It took me about 4 weeks of trying different dates and I booked the flights a year in advance - in February 2023 for February 2024. You need a lot of patience to book an ANA award flight but it’s possible with a little perseverance. I managed to book the same route in business on ANA also last year, about 8 months in advance, when both Japan and Australia were still closed. However, when you book ANA with Lufthansa miles there is no waitlisting and you have to input each date separately to check availability, it really was a nightmare to book this year but made me so happy when I finally succeeded LOL.

  10. TOM Guest

    I beg to differ with the idea that we need a bunch of other writers here. Probably Frequent Miler is the only BA blog that has managed to make it work with more than one writer. On all the rest of the BA blogs, there is a major drop off in quality with the secondary writers. It was the same here the last time it was tried out, with the exception of a few of Tiffany's posts.

    TPG 2.0 is a terrible idea

  11. GUWonder Guest

    The new business class seats on the 777s are great for those traveling with lap-children.

  12. GUWonder Guest

    Earlier this week, ANA served ORD with the new business seats.

    1. Ben Schlappig OMAAT

      @ GUWonder -- Indeed, but as of the summer schedule Chicago will no longer see the new cabins (at least as far as I can tell).

    2. MikeBost Guest

      I’ve booked ORD-NRT for January 2024 and it’s showing the cube as my seat in 2K. I did get to fly the suite this past January from ORD, it was a pretty amazing experience.

    3. TA Guest

      Yesterday was supposed to be the last day served by the new 777s to ORD (end of winter schedule), but the seat map just updated for our ORD-HND tomorrow, 3/28 to the Room/Suite and the new 777.

  13. Loretta Jackson Guest

    Another post for SEO only. Tiff, it's getting to be a bit much.

    1. Scudder Diamond

      Are all these from Tiffany? She hasn’t had a by-line here in so long, I’d assumed she’d left Ben solo.

    2. Julia Guest

      Yeah, it's been a while since we've seen posts by people who aren't Ben.

      Remember the days when Ben was trying to turn this site into TRP 2.0 and there were more than half a dozen other contributors? Good times...I wonder what happened to them. Maybe Ben should do a "Where are they now?" type of post on them...

      Given how busy Ben is now that he is a father (and why we are...

      Yeah, it's been a while since we've seen posts by people who aren't Ben.

      Remember the days when Ben was trying to turn this site into TRP 2.0 and there were more than half a dozen other contributors? Good times...I wonder what happened to them. Maybe Ben should do a "Where are they now?" type of post on them...

      Given how busy Ben is now that he is a father (and why we are seeing so many recycled posts), maybe having a few other people contributing on here wouldn't be such a bad thing...

    3. Julia Guest

      Whoops, meant to say TPG 2.0...

    4. Ben Schlappig OMAAT

      @ Julia -- I'm a bit confused, trying to be TPG 2.0 is "good times," as in that's how you'd like to see the blog? Of course I appreciate the feedback, and I am thinking of adding contributors once again.

      Just for some background, I've maybe had just over half a dozen contributors over the 15+ years that I've been publishing this blog. But at no point did I ever have that many writing at...

      @ Julia -- I'm a bit confused, trying to be TPG 2.0 is "good times," as in that's how you'd like to see the blog? Of course I appreciate the feedback, and I am thinking of adding contributors once again.

      Just for some background, I've maybe had just over half a dozen contributors over the 15+ years that I've been publishing this blog. But at no point did I ever have that many writing at once. Even during the period where I had the most contributors, I was writing 80%+ of the content.

      Anyway, I've been trying to listen to reader feedback, which has been to do more trip reports. Those are extremely time consuming to write, so then the new complaint seems to be that there's not enough other content. Perhaps adding contributors is the best solution there.

    5. WB Guest

      @Ben - Is there a place I can apply?

    6. David Guest

      I certainly appreciate the update on where ANA has their new cabins. I was searching flights out of Seattle and was wondering if that might have "the Room". Now I know to either change my search for SFO or know what to expect out of Seattle. Thanks Ben!

    7. Ben Schlappig OMAAT

      @ Loretta Jackson -- Sorry, but how is this post for SEO only? I've updated posts about where ANA, Emirates, and Lufthansa are flying certain cabins to coincide with the the start of the summer travel schedule, which applies as of this weekend. The posts were otherwise inaccurate and irrelevant.

      Lots of OMAAT readers want to know on which routes they can expect to fly these kinds of products, and those are questions I frequently get.

    8. Michael Guest

      I for one found this helpful. And why I don't have expertise into how blogs and google work, even if this post was for SEO only, doesn't that mean that people are actually, you know...searching for this info?

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TA Guest

Yesterday was supposed to be the last day served by the new 777s to ORD (end of winter schedule), but the seat map just updated for our ORD-HND tomorrow, 3/28 to the Room/Suite and the new 777.

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Clem Diamond

Yeah, there is barely any ANA award availability right now, it's been like this since the end of the pandemic. Even before, it wasn't easy to find availability but it was possible with a little flexibility and research, but now it's mostly all gone. They are probably selling those seats for cash and have no need to make award inventory available.

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chris Guest

Why do so many people have a difficult time comprehending that just because it isn't useful to them, doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone? I was going to have to for this next week while trying to book a JAL flight via Alaska Air. This was useful for me

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