Cool sounds good. OZ looks decent enough. I mean you cant compare to Zip as you said, a no brainer to try Asiana. I just flew ITA long haul and was so underwhelmed. So a brand new plane & a great sounding menu & another OMAAT/Ben was wrong saying the food is GREAT (i have to stop trusting him when its about food)... I am sure Asiana will blow ITA out of the water. I think the top 10 Asian airlines would all be in the tojp 3 to 4 of Euro/US airlines. I mean AF is all i can think of that can hold rank, maybe TK, but I just flew TK for the first time and while of course better than ITA it was not as great at all as I had hoped.

Will let you know on Asiana. Feel free to touch base via PM.

I really want to try HA but the stop half way isnt ideal. I would only do the HA option if one of the flights was on the new 787. 1-2-1 over 2-2-2 is huge not to mention doors & more state of the art seats.