I grant you all that I based my views on one F flight and what is now clear has been an ancient A380. So some of my issues were due to the age of the aircraft. But even on a two year old one the screen in J was crap compared to the widescreens you get in Y on a TK A320 on the LHR to IST route! Futhermore the movie choice is pretty limited in it being a Middle Eastern carrier...

Still, having no overhead storage is utterly bizarre and I'll never accept that as a way forward. And doing it in J on their new A380s as well is just stupid. I dicussed this with a flight attendant on my last flight with EK in J and she was as aghast as I at the removal of the bins in J. She said "Have they never flown an A380 to Saudi? Each passenger has TONS of bags to store". Well I said, "the old planes will be used on the Saudi routes then..."