Originally Posted by
benzemalyonnais
There really isn't a benefit to flying to NRT through ICN just to have a closing door.
Have you actually flown any of these F seats that have doors though ? There are very few airlines that has doors in the F seats: EK F, SQ R, OZ F (JFK for now, previously ORD), TG F on the 77W (leased from 9W). Any F seats that have door truly feel like you are flying in F (LH's F on the 744 that have separate seat+bed is a whole different category though, it is justified not to have doors), as if there are no doors, many airlines have the similar F seats, and I believe OP was asking about best F class.
Originally Posted by
benzemalyonnais
NH has an excellent all around product on the route and some availability can be had from ORD and IAD. If you want to maximize air time in F (this is FT after all) OZ would make more sense. CX makes no sense with the routing, and Id imagine SQ will add a lot of time with the LAX connection.
NH is excellent, but NH don't release 2 F seats at a time per flight, it is usually 1 seat, then you have to wait til close the departure (2 weeks or less) to release the 2nd F seat, and it is not guaranteed the 2nd seat will release at all, so basically you could wait for nothing. (OP is looking for 2 seats from post#1)
OZ however is different compare to NH, they don't hold seats like NH does, OZ in a way is like TG, if there are F seats, they don't hold it, so it is not hard to get 2 or even 3 F seats at the same time until it dries up.
Even if SQ will add a lot of time with the LAX connection, it is still worth it to fly R on the 380, the hard product, the soft product, the food, all well above and beyond. If it is not SQ hold back R/F/C on the 380 and 77W, every FTers will use SQ for awards as their #1 choice !