Originally Posted by fallinasleep
But unless you are doing a RTW, wouldn't wind be a non-issue for a round trip, and I don't think the connections are necessarily any better via the Atlantic with the possible exception of flying BA. Also by going via the Pacific, you get to transit better airports (i.e., Hong Kong and Singapore) versus Heathrow and Frankfurt and fly on generally more service-oriented carriers.
From a west coast perspective, I've found that travel times are slightly shorter and connection times better flying transatlantic on LH (rather than transpacific on SQ or TG) to India. However, as mentioned above, for in-flight and airport services (and because I like to fly), I'd rather fly transpacific.