Originally Posted by
meFIRST
I was flying EK J class, 777-LR.
Though I should have followed
Eightblack's advice, and routed the flight to IAH (for reasons EK flyers will understand)
LAX-DXB, turned out to be 17 hours, close to 18.

I'm never doing that again. Even in F.
Since I probably won't have anyone to pick up the tab to fly EK this time, I'll probably be flying UA

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I came back DXB-IAH in EK F (J reward op-upped). 16 hours and I enjoyed every minute.

But since CO/UA and EK parted ways that's not gonna happen again.
Why IAH over LAX?