Originally Posted by
christep
Unfortunately, reports recently say that at least some of the LHR flights are of variable quality in F these days. To be safer (on service quality, although in a cabin that most people regard as inferior, albeit with the same seat) try to go for a CX flight served by A340s (although if it really is a day trip then you'll have a problem in that the A340s do the daytime HKG-LHRs and the 744s do the late evening departures).
But personally all other things being equal on a paid F ticket at the moment I would be tempted to try BA and QF again (I've flown BA F recently on other routes and it was OK, but I haven't flown QF F for 3 or 4 years). Maybe I'm just getting bored with CX?
Maybe you are getting bored... I do not fly too often on BA and CX those days, but I find CX seats vastly superior to BA's (remember BA fits 14 seats in the nose of the 747), and the seats are very narrow at the feet. The only pleasant seats on BA are the first row. Also AVOD on CX is great. I have not tried the new BA F, but I doubt that they use it on HKG. Also the wines are better than on BA.