Originally Posted by
tommy525
The next thing I really hate are long flights, especially the long ones across the Pacific. I remember my first time going back to Asia was with Northwest with a 747-200 (and that was my first 747 ride) stopping first in Hawaii, then Narita, then Osaka and then finally at the old airport in Taipei. So no flight was over 8 hours. IF memory serves it was about 5 to Hawaii, then 7 to Tokyo, then an hour to Osaka and then about 2 hours to Sungshan in Taipei. Nowadays most flights to Taipei are nonstop and entail around 13 hours in the air. Iv done it before and its not fun to be that long in the air in one stretch. I'd much rather break it up so I can take a breather on the ground.
I don't quite understand why you would have a routing from US to NRT going through Hawaii on NW, you must be talking early 70s before 747 comes ?
When NW was using shorter range 747-100, it use Anchorage as refuel stop from US to NRT, rather than Hawaii, that is in the late 70s and early 80s. After that, they no longer need to refuel when the 747-200B comes, they can do ORD-NRT and JFK-NRT nonstop.
Originally Posted by
tommy525
An Asiana triple 7 300ER ready for pushback to Seoul. She will be leading the way in our pack of three big twins, ahead of the Northwest 332 across the Pacific , while following behind a Cathay Pacific 747 on its way to Hong Kong non-stop.
Btw, asiana does not have 777-300ER, it is 200ER.
Originally Posted by
tommy525
Would I do this JAL trip again? Yes but I hope I can at least afford the Premium Economy though. The thought of repeating being sandwiched between two burly men for some ten hours or so distresses me no end.
Paying for premium economy is hardly worth it, as it is close to the price for business, you have to buy full fare Y in order to sit in premium economy. It is basically for those people who work in a company, and they won't pay their employees in business class, only economy. Basically almost every airline has premium economy have the same rule except on UA, you only need to pay $100 more in order to sit in E+, but of course, you get what you pay for, you only get several extra inches of legroom on UA.