Originally Posted by
Ghery
This stinks. Looks like my trips to Asia will be through SFO. I WILL NOT ride ANA, not after the pain (physical) they inflicted on me last year. It took my knees a month to stop hurting after being jammed into the seat in front of me on three legs. I will avoid DL if at all possible, no legroom in coach on them, too. Nothing new, I first rode them in 1976 and that DC-8 was a sardine can, too. I typically fly out of SEA, so losing the SEA-NRT flights will hurt. Well, there's always the Q400 to Vancouver, followed by Air Canada...
DL has E+ to Asia now from SEA for Plats and higher (I think a 1K can match to plat). I am going to give it a try. The crack of dawn flights to connect through SFO are brutal and then being stuck in E+ on a 747 is at least as bad as ANA.