stargold

To me, this seat type (same as JL) is among the handful of the very best J class seats available today. Curious what you would have been happy with, without seriously encroaching F class territory.

Pathfinder813

That's good to hear. I wish they would rip out the A380 J seats for this now!

TerryK

It is the new J class seat. Prestige is the name for business class on KE. With this new Prestige Suite, KE has four different types of J class seat in service now. Looks pretty good to me.

Pathfinder813

Korean makes it confusing. It's the F and J class seat on intra-Asia flights and it's J class for long haul flights.

The current Prestige sleeper seats are also the intra-Asia F class seat but has some sort of table thing under the LCD TV. I suppose hard product is the same for F and J but different soft product.

fpc552

It's an F and a J seat:
https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...irst-seat.html
https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...ige-suite.html

As has already been mentioned in this thread, this is a version of the B/E Apex (http://beaerospace.com/products/seat...st-class/apex/), the seat JL is marketing as the JAL Sky Suite in J on their "SS7" 77W (2-3-2) and "SS8" 788s (2-2-2). Oman Air has also purchased this product.

mnoutdoors

I will be flying in J on 05-FEB from ICN to BKK and back 15-FEB. It would be fun to try something new....

MegatopLover

What is the plan for rolling out these news seats?

Pathfinder813

I looked around for more info on Korean websites/blogs/etc. Apparently they'll be rolling out on the A330-300 for now and will be installed on newly delivered aircraft which includes the B748, B787, and B773 or something like that. I'll check again later today. This is the news article that reports on the rollout of the seat: http://view.asiae.co.kr/news/view.ht...10207263695943

HL8001 and HL8002 (both A333) currently have the new Prestige Suites. I got this info along with pictures here: http://cafe.naver.com/hotellife/641300

The upsetting thing is I haven't seen any mention re installing the seats on the A388.

I'll keep scouring the Korean websites but so far, some other sites seem to state that because of the macademia nut incident, KE has postponed announcing the new seat. I suppose they want the negative air to clear before announcing a new product.

San Gottardo

I am trying to figure out which First Class seat is on the B777-300ER on the route between Sao Paulo and Seoul.

stargold

I don't think 77W will change from the Kosmo Suite in F (otherwise it would be a big downgrade if they changed to this seat). So your GRU-ICN on 77W will be the Kosmo Suite.

It should only be the J seats which are subject to replacement with the new Prestige Suites.

bobbybrown

Amid the chaos, KE quietly introduced yet another new version of first and business class, named First Class and Prestige Suite. This is just like JAL's newest version. Finally KE does something for privacy.

KE will not upgrade existing fleets. These seats will be introduced to newly delivered fleets only, which are 6 333 (among which 3 are already delivered, running SIN BNE HAN etc), 12 77W, 10 748, and 10 789.

First class: Not sure long haul fleets will also have this. For 333, this is much better for sure
https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...irst-seat.html

Business class:
https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...ige-suite.html

333 seatmap:
https://www.koreanair.com/content/ko...0-seat-map-272

HawaiiO

Nice! Thanks for the posts.

Should be better than the current seats.
I like the kosmo suites though.

JALPak

Already a thread on this

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/korean-air-skypass-621/

bobbybrown

Oops, I'll ask mod to delete this thread. Thanks

yerffej201

What routes are getting these new planes first?