Originally Posted by eddie1
hope its not me, thursday my boss tells me 'you gotta go to NZ March on business but you can only fly AIR NZ or Emirates' so I thought I'd ask the forum's advice, I have to decide by monday, and I gotta say the response from the united forum has been great, unfortunately Air NZ will not have upgraded their fleet by the time I fly. Although the star alliance points situation leads me to favour their routing. if only they had more comfortable seats! Thanks again forum members for your help.
The Emirates First suites look great but their C seats are perfectly obsolete,
as you can see from
http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/seats_global.htm
You should be lucky to be stuck with AirNZ. I flew them 5 times in C, and find their on board service fantastic and frendly and the seats very comfy. If you survive the fact that their check in staff are unfriendly imbeciles (ok that is just my experience se far) then you will be perfectly happy with them.
Oh - that is if you don't mind the immigration & customs harrassment when flying via LAX.