Originally Posted by
mad_atta
What better sign that nature is finally healing than an international first class trip report from SFO777? Looks like a great trip. I had no idea that TG had newly fitted F on some B773s these days - and miraculously the service levels and catering quality still seem to be very high. It seems like a marginally viable product right now so I had feared the worst. The BKK lounge looks like it's perhaps a roped off area of the business lounge, rather than the new F lounge? Was the spa open?
Thanks very much
mad_atta. The BKK F lounge is new and it is a separate lounge beyond the Business Lounge. No idea about the spa as it was early in the AM and I didn't have to presence of mind to ask.
Originally Posted by
mad_atta
I'm interested as to why you consider the wine list (champagne aside) to be dreadful? It's definitely quirky, and I'm not familiar with all of it, but it looks like an interesting and respectable offering to me (admittedly with a few notable lapses in quality). But definitely a list where you could find interesting and appealing things to drink. (The Kusuda Pinot Noir in particular is fabulous stuff - though I see in the fine print that's not served on the US routes.) Just not to your taste or are there particular wines on there you dislike?
I'm partial to French wines so I guess my wine frame of reference is EK which has the best and most extravagant in-flight wine list, and which is 60% French. Apart from the Chateau Lagrange and Prophet's Rock, I hadn't encountered any of the offerings. In that case, I check to Vivino app before pushback. Anything under a 4.0 rating or $50 is not worth my while in flight when my options are Cristal, Salon or Comtes. A $15 bottle of wine in F?? Seriously?
