Originally Posted by
rathin100
This is truly terrible. Very sad.
EK management is very arrogant and oe of the reasons my company has stopped using EK...
Ive found LH to be ok recently with refurbished FRA senator lounge and rather good food also lie flat so no discernible hard product difference.
Doing BA thursday in club world and will let you know if the improvements
in cuisine and service they are touting have indeed happened.
Unfortunately, my options are highly limited at this time, between SFO-CCU. SQ is too expensive (and time consuming). TG would be via LAX (which I can manage), but you have a long layover in BKK I think.
I find that the LH is not nearly as comfortable as the EK seat. Also, LH has at best a 0:45 minute connection (and that only 3x per week) to CCU. I have missed that connection too many times (with horrible CS at FRA afterwards) to consider LH.
That leaves EK at the moment, unless I want to take a 2nd connection at either BOM/DEL or in the US.
Let's see if Qatar starts US West Coast flights. They recently started flying to CCU.
If I were originating in NYC, it would be a no brainer to stick with AI. the DEL-JFK nonstop is one that they probably maintain at any cost. It is a good "Indian" experience with a short 3 hour layover in DEL, without clearing customs/immigration, or transferring terminals.