Best Airline to Japan?

[Farang]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Farang
I think all economy class flights are more or less the same but the worst I had was with EVA Air, where I was on a 747 without personal screens on a trans-Atlantic flight. In my experience of long range flights that is unheard of.

Eva specializes in flights to and from Taiwan. Their trans-pacific flights are decent, but they use older 747s for those. Their better flights go to Bangkok, Korea, Japan, Europe, and Australia from Taiwan. On those flights I've ridden newer 767s, 777s, and once a brand new A330 with the new airplane smell still.

I've never had a flight on Eva without a personal screen. Since I was 7 I've been flying to Taiwan every year. The times I took United my 2nd grade, 7th and 8th grade, there were no personal screens. Eva had it every time. Now by the end of high school it was kinda the standard to move to LCD screens but that's when Eva's older 747s shone through. With that said I believe I'll be flying with them again this Dec when I fly to Taiwan. I will miss Singapore's huge screens. They had like 24" screens for Business (eyeballed it to be the size of my Dell 2405 at home). First class' screens looked bigger than my Dell 2707 =[

I know planes can be configured differently but I always go for the 777 because it has always worked out for me. The EVA flight I took was Seattle - Taiwan in 2007 and was an old-as-hell 747 with crappy TV's set up from the ceiling every fifth row. I guess I'd still buy an EVA ticket because I'm not picky, if I were to be I'd just look at what type of plane it is because in my experience airline service is all the same at the economy level.

Really just find the cheapest tickets and see which one is flying a 777. If I had the money that is how I'd pick.

 

[alkemyst]

When people are talking about flying they should include where they flew out of and what class. It makes a HUGE difference.

Also height and weight perhaps should be mentioned to those crying asian airlines have seats too small.

 

[Farang]

Actually DLeRium you're right I flew a 777 from Taiwan - Bangkok on EVA and it was awesome.. I only remember the crappy 747 because it wasw 8 hours longer

 

[abaez]

All my nonstops to Narita from LAX on coach:

United - Decent, but only because I got a good seat. The ticket was cheap ($700 round trip).
JAL - Best by far because the stewardesses were super, duper nice. The little things make it better imho, cleaner pillows, better food, cleaner and newer plane. Cost was $900ish.
Korean - Above average - better than United. Bonus is that they had plugs near all seats for your laptop (the Office marathon makes the fly go *fast*). One stewardess was pretty offish though (affects a set of passengers more than you'd think).

All in all, I would take any of them again depending largely on the seat I get and the price. I'm not picky, and for me as long as I have a decently comfortable flight with no wack, loud passengers and good stewardesses I'm good. If I had to pick one it would be JAL though.

 

[ucdbiendog]

i flew JAL last year and it was a great flight. but I was flying business class courtesy of my company, so, yah.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

If you fly either Cathay, ANA, or Korean, let me know what you think of the interior.

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

I'm actually heading to Japan tomorrow... flying via ANA... I've been told they have the best food?? LOL I'll let you all know in a day or two how it goes!

Currently pulling an all nighter to try and quickly switch my time zone... :-D

 

[Aquaman]

Anyone know who flies a A380 and to were? I've always wanted to fly on one of those. I think Singapore, Quantas & some Middle Eastern Airline (UAE) are flying them.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
Anyone know who flies a A380 and to were? I've always wanted to fly on one of those. I think Singapore, Quantas & some Middle Eastern Airline (UAE) are flying them.

Cheers,
Aquaman

Entry into service
Qantas Airbus A380 VH-OQA at Sydney Airport.

The first aircraft delivered (MSN003, registered 9V-SKA) was handed over to Singapore Airlines on 15 October 2007 and entered into service on 25 October 2007 with a inaugural flight between Singapore and Sydney (flight number SQ380). Passengers bought seats in a charity online auction paying between $560 and $100,380. Two months later Singapore Airlines CEO Chew Choong Seng said that the A380 was performing better than both the airline and Airbus had anticipated, burning 20% less fuel per passenger than the airline's existing 747-400 fleet. Emirates Airline was the second airline to take delivery of the A380 on 28 July 2008 and started flights between Dubai and New York on 1 August 2008. Qantas followed on 20 October 2008 flying between Melbourne and Los Angeles.

Interesting.......... Maybe next time I am in Singapore I'll take a trip to Oz

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[KMFJD]

Avoid all North American airlines (Air Canada included)

 

[AkumaX]

JAL/ANA

 

[IceBergSLiM]

i took JAL to Sao Paulo once and it was awesome.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Farang
I think all economy class flights are more or less the same but the worst I had was with EVA Air, where I was on a 747 without personal screens on a trans-Atlantic flight. In my experience of long range flights that is unheard of.

Eva specializes in flights to and from Taiwan. Their trans-pacific flights are decent, but they use older 747s for those. Their better flights go to Bangkok, Korea, Japan, Europe, and Australia from Taiwan. On those flights I've ridden newer 767s, 777s, and once a brand new A330 with the new airplane smell still.

I've never had a flight on Eva without a personal screen. Since I was 7 I've been flying to Taiwan every year. The times I took United my 2nd grade, 7th and 8th grade, there were no personal screens. Eva had it every time. Now by the end of high school it was kinda the standard to move to LCD screens but that's when Eva's older 747s shone through. With that said I believe I'll be flying with them again this Dec when I fly to Taiwan. I will miss Singapore's huge screens. They had like 24" screens for Business (eyeballed it to be the size of my Dell 2405 at home). First class' screens looked bigger than my Dell 2707 =[

I know planes can be configured differently but I always go for the 777 because it has always worked out for me. The EVA flight I took was Seattle - Taiwan in 2007 and was an old-as-hell 747 with crappy TV's set up from the ceiling every fifth row. I guess I'd still buy an EVA ticket because I'm not picky, if I were to be I'd just look at what type of plane it is because in my experience airline service is all the same at the economy level.

Really just find the cheapest tickets and see which one is flying a 777. If I had the money that is how I'd pick.

Unfortunately, they don't make the 777 flights too popular. Eva flies like twice a day to LAX and SFO and those are with 747s. The LA flights are packed tighter so they don't use the Combi planes. My experience with both is that there are personal TV screens. Then again I've never flown plain economy and it's always deluxe economy for me (d'oh should've realized that when you guys were saying how there's no screens).

I honestly have never been on a 777 for a transpacific flight with the exception of flying to Guangzhou from LAX. You gotta pick those extra long haul routes to even be put on one (same goes for the A340-500/600).

 

[ivan2]

I had bad experience with the 2-5-2 configuration of the 777. Avoid the middle seat at all cost.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Originally posted by: ivan2
I had bad experience with the 2-5-2 configuration of the 777. Avoid the middle seat at all cost.

Most airlines have a 3-3-3 configuration for their 777's. I knowed United does a 2-5-2 and Air France does a 3-4-3, but all of the other carriers I've seen do 3-3-3.