DEL to SFO in Y: What's better....AF or KL
Oct 24, 2012, 9:50 pm
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DEL to SFO in Y: What's better....AF or KL
Looking to bring my family off 5 from DEL to SFO in Y, have choice of AF or KL. What's better? Seats/AVOD/chance of getting Y+/lounge access? Looks like AF has 773 and 772 on the route, while KL has MD and 330 on it.
Oct 24, 2012, 9:52 pm
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Oct 24, 2012, 10:04 pm
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KLM has Economy Comfort, but if you're not flying with them it will cost (Not sure what the rules are if you are with them on the same PNR).
Some AF 777 have 10 across in Y (maybe all do by now) so I would watch for that as well.
Some AF 777 have 10 across in Y (maybe all do by now) so I would watch for that as well.
Oct 25, 2012, 12:02 am
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as a DL DM, you get lounge access. the lounge in Delhi is nice, and has numerous hot food options (veg/non veg), a full bar and plenty of non-alcoholic selections. check the delta website to see how many people you can bring in as a guest. similarly at CDG you will have lounge access. the transfer at CDG is not as horrifying as people here would suggest. i am definitely a plan of the premium voyageur class on AF. it's about 20% extra in price, but is worth it in my opinion. and you get 150% MQM.
Oct 30, 2012, 9:09 pm
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Went ahead and book on KLM. Called Delta to request economy comfort seating and next time when I logged in to see my booking, what would you believe, we were all sitting in EC. I was not even prompted for any payments, so I thought it's all kosher. But yesterday when I logged back, we were back to unassigned seating and selection of any premium seating prompted the standard payments, not even any discount for me as a DM. What could be going on? Could anybody shed some light with their similar experiences? I ended up booking directly with KLM.
Oct 30, 2012, 9:54 pm
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Went ahead and book on KLM. Called Delta to request economy comfort seating and next time when I logged in to see my booking, what would you believe, we were all sitting in EC. I was not even prompted for any payments, so I thought it's all kosher. But yesterday when I logged back, we were back to unassigned seating and selection of any premium seating prompted the standard payments, not even any discount for me as a DM. What could be going on? Could anybody shed some light with their similar experiences? I ended up booking directly with KLM.
IIRC KLM should give you and others on the same PNR either free or discounted EC seats, but this must be done through KLM.