Part V
Part 1: DL LGA-DTW-HKG
Part 2: Sheraton towers Hong kong
Part 3: W hotel Hong Kong
Part 4: Macau
Part 5: DL HKG-NRT BusinessElite
Part 6: DL NRT-JFK BusinessElite
DELTA AIRLINES 738
Aircraft:777-ER
Seat: 7A
Business Elite
Depart: Hong kong airport(HKG)
Arrive: Tokyo Narita international airport(NRT)
Sched.departure:8:05am
Actual Departure: 8:00am
Sched.Arrival:1:15pm
Actual arrival: 12:50pm
5am wake up, I woke to my last harbor view of hong kong from the W Hotel. I will miss the W. One of the great advantages of staying at the W hotel, the Kowloon station is located right underneath the hotel in the Elements mall. This is one thing Hong Kong did right. It makes it so easy to do checkin at the station before arriving at the airport.
I check in at 5:30am at the Kowloon station for my flight, another great idea. It makes it so much easier to check your luggage in the city and then board the train to the airport which takes 21 mins. The first train departed at 5:53am and off I went to the airport. Quickly through immigration I headed to the Qantas business class Lounge, Delta uses the lounge for their business elite and diamond/platinum and I am so glad they do. Wonderful lounge.
Kowloon Airline Check-in
Express train to HKG
HKG
Entrance Qantas Business Class Lounge
Qantas Business class lounge
Qantas Business class lounge
Barrister serving excellent coffee
Open seating area
excellent bathroom products
Final call was announced and I headed to the gate which was about a 5 min walk to gate 25. Boarding had almost finished by the time I had arrived and they were security guards doing checks on all passengers carry-on bags. Not sure why as they opened both my bags put a lifted nothing then closed it up for me and sent me on my way.
Champagne served, I was ready for another wonderful flight. I chose seat 7A once more for the privacy. The front cabin of business elite was about 50% full. The flight crew were all Asia based except for the lead flight attend Dawn was based in Detroit. She was absolutely incredible and never let my mimosa go empty. In fact she switched to a larger glass. Woohoo!
777-ER
Seat 7A
View of 6C which I occupied to charge my ipad
Front Cabin
Once air borne I noticed the charger was not working as due to the empty business elite cabin I switched over to 6C to continue writing my report, though I ate breakfast in 7A. It almost felt like my own private little cabin,
FIRST COURSE
SEASON FRUITS
BREAKFAST BREADS WITH PRESERVES
MAIN COURSE
Choice of either;
TOMATO MUSHROOM OMELET
with potatoes and chicken sausage
or
DIM SUM
Of lor Mai Kai Sui Mai and turnpike cake with stir fried pak choy
or
CEREAL
with milk and banana
Breakfast
Loved having bottomless mimosa on the HKG-NRT flight
I chatted with Dawn, the awesome Detroit based flight attendant and loved her enthusiasm and vibe. It was a short hop (4hrs) but the service was awesome.
We landed at Tokyo Narita Airport exceptionally early but due to us landing on Runway 31R we had a very long taxi time to the Terminal 1 gate. But nonetheless we still arrived early.
Security clearance for passenger transfer took some time as there were several Delta flights arriving at the same time. The sky priority lane took a few minutes but as do the Japanese, it was orderly and pleasant.
I headed to delta sky club in the 2nd satellite, to freshen up with a shower and most importantly some sushi. I was in Japan in February and visited the delta sky club in satellite 1. I was somewhat impressed with the club though the bathroom were something left to be desired. So I was not expecting much as I headed to the shower, but boy was there a difference. Better water pressure, better everything except for a hair dryer! What bathroom doesn't have a hair dryer?
NRT
Delta Skyclub
Narita
Narita
Narita
As my flight was delayed an hour I took a leisurely shower and ate the awesome sushi and updated my trip report. Once the 2nd boarding announcement was made I headed down to the gate.
Final installment Delta NRT-JFK