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Dec 15, 2016, 11:19 am
#31
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I am sorry, but I have to guess you've never sat in a real F cabin (no, domestic American airlines that calls itself "First Class" isn't a real F cabin) that serves real F cabin food, long-haul. Many airlines long-haul F dining is restaurant quality, and some of them I would even say fine-dining quality.
Dec 15, 2016, 2:14 pm
#32
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I am sorry, but I have to guess you've never sat in a real F cabin (no, domestic American airlines that calls itself "First Class" isn't a real F cabin) that serves real F cabin food, long-haul. Many airlines long-haul F dining is restaurant quality, and some of them I would even say fine-dining quality.
Speaking generally, though, I pay (whether in dollars or miles) for hard product, and if I'm going to be stuck in an airline seat I'm either sleeping or working. If I could save some money and get a modern J seat with LCC-coach service, I'd be a happy camper. (Arguably, that's what I get with AA anyway. I haven't flown the new AA 77W in first but I'd take CX J over the old AA 772 "F" any day.)
Dec 15, 2016, 8:42 pm
#34
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I've got into congee for breakfast in a big way on CX. It's light, it's delicious, it's as good in the air as on the ground.
Dec 15, 2016, 9:14 pm
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Dec 15, 2016, 10:15 pm
#36
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I just wish airlines on TPAC routes -- again hardly unique to CX -- would (A) start having a hot western breakfast that wasn't ALWAYS eggs (or a second hot western breakfast) as eggs seem to get really nasty in the air, and (B) that the western beef option -- if any -- on pretty much every airline wasn't the same d*mn bland mushy chunk of filet*.
Dec 16, 2016, 12:44 am
#37
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If not, McDonalds or a typical greasy spoon will beat anything precooked that has been sitting around for hours.
Dec 16, 2016, 1:09 am
#38
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How can this be true?
Y class meals better than J Class meal? Y Class is just one tray, J Class is a 4-course meal....how??
Then you claimed that when you are in F, you steal J Class meal over? Why? If your first claim is true, you should be stealing Y class meal over to eat in F since Y class meal is always better than J.....
And how is it possible that when you paid F class tickets you need to steal food over?
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Dec 16, 2016, 1:18 am
#39
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Unless they've got someone cooking them to order in a frying pan in the galley, I doubt that. If they do, they'll certainly be better than the ones they serve on pretty much every airline in J, let alone Y.
If not, McDonalds or a typical greasy spoon will beat anything precooked that has been sitting around for hours.
If not, McDonalds or a typical greasy spoon will beat anything precooked that has been sitting around for hours.
Dec 16, 2016, 4:25 am
#41
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There is a machine in F that will cook the eggs. Scrambled are what I've always had, and they're just like scrambled eggs on the ground. And for good reason: the FP or SP actually crack the egg into the cooker tray thing and cook it normally.
No, J doesn't have this. Only F.
How the boiled eggs taste is kinda not relevant to what sxc is pointing out, no offense. Although I'm interested now, because I never even thought to order boiled...but your logic makes sense to me! I will just continued to order them scrambled or sunny side up.
Mine (and I suspect sxc's) point is they are fresh eggs and a cooker, and the machine is an airplane approved heated pan thing that has a similar effect as to what you'd use at home. The guy just hasn't flown CX F I don't think so is mistaken.
Dec 16, 2016, 8:35 am
#42
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I am sorry, but I have to guess you've never sat in a real F cabin (no, domestic American airlines that calls itself "First Class" isn't a real F cabin) that serves real F cabin food, long-haul. Many airlines long-haul F dining is restaurant quality, and some of them I would even say fine-dining quality.
Dec 16, 2016, 8:45 am
#43
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Don't forget about the Kaiseki which I think is still a real 'dining' experience. I would never want to have the Y (or J) meal over that, never 
Dec 16, 2016, 11:24 am
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Given the improvement in J hard products over recent years, I probably won't ever get a chance to try it (I've never heard of a J to F op-up on an award ticket, on CX or even on AA; I suppose in theory it could happen.)
Getting back to the thread topic, PEY to J op-ups have been pretty common on HKG-to-SFO for me as OW Emerald (sadly in what is almost certainly my last year of it, given AA's new EQD requirement) and I've also enjoyed the very cheap cash up-fare on PEY to regional J on segments where they don't have an actual PEY seat onward from HKG (e.g. some flights into BKK or MNL)
Dec 16, 2016, 11:34 am
#45
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I have my doubts that eggs will ever be something I'll want on an airplane, but that's a good bit better than AA F (or the old AA F, at least) and has some chance of at least being as good as something I'd eat on the ground.
Given the improvement in J hard products over recent years, I probably won't ever get a chance to try it (I've never heard of a J to F op-up on an award ticket, on CX or even on AA; I suppose in theory it could happen.)
Getting back to the thread topic, PEY to J op-ups have been pretty common on HKG-to-SFO for me as OW Emerald (sadly in what is almost certainly my last year of it, given AA's new EQD requirement) and I've also enjoyed the very cheap cash up-fare on PEY to regional J on segments where they don't have an actual PEY seat onward from HKG (e.g. some flights into BKK or MNL)
Given the improvement in J hard products over recent years, I probably won't ever get a chance to try it (I've never heard of a J to F op-up on an award ticket, on CX or even on AA; I suppose in theory it could happen.)
Getting back to the thread topic, PEY to J op-ups have been pretty common on HKG-to-SFO for me as OW Emerald (sadly in what is almost certainly my last year of it, given AA's new EQD requirement) and I've also enjoyed the very cheap cash up-fare on PEY to regional J on segments where they don't have an actual PEY seat onward from HKG (e.g. some flights into BKK or MNL)