Asiana Business flights
Jun 18, 2006, 6:50 pm
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Asiana Business flights
Any experience for Asiana flights in business class?
Booked an award ticket for my sister. Outbound is UA but return the agent can only find Asiana for her. The flights are from TPE -> ICN -> JFK in September. TPE -> ICN is OZ#712 with Boeing 767, ICN -> JFS is OZ#222 with Boeing 747.
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
Booked an award ticket for my sister. Outbound is UA but return the agent can only find Asiana for her. The flights are from TPE -> ICN -> JFK in September. TPE -> ICN is OZ#712 with Boeing 767, ICN -> JFS is OZ#222 with Boeing 747.
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
Jun 18, 2006, 10:30 pm
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767s are guaranteed to be crap. 747 may be halfway decent or crappy, depending on which model you get. Do a search, this gets discussed a lot -- here's a OZ 747 & 777 report from last week and a OZ 767 report from two years ago (AFAIK the planes haven't changed).
Jun 19, 2006, 1:08 am
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Originally Posted by jpatokal
767s are guaranteed to be crap. 747 may be halfway decent or crappy, depending on which model you get. Do a search, this gets discussed a lot -- here's a OZ 747 & 777 report from last week and a OZ 767 report from two years ago (AFAIK the planes haven't changed).
All Asiana 744s are also guaranteed craps. 772 is the one may be halfway decent or crappy. Have been on business class of both 744 and 763 of Asiana, I don't think she would have a comfortable flight on either aircraft. Go for another carrier.
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Jun 19, 2006, 1:53 am
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Originally Posted by N227UA
All Asiana 744s are also guaranteed craps. 772 is the one may be halfway decent or crappy. Have been on business class of both 744 and 763 of Asiana, I don't think she would have a comfortable flight on either aircraft. Go for another carrier.
Jun 19, 2006, 6:29 am
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Seats on OZ 767's will be like UA domestic first seats; service and food will be better than domestic. Seats on 747's are "old" style cradle seats, I believe pitch is about 50" (compared to UA C with 55".) IMO, while seating on the 747 is not as good as UA or SQ, it will beat the heck out of economy.
Returning from TPE, I would guess your options are limited to UA, NH and OZ. (Possibly could go SQ or TG will signigicant back tracking and a very creative UA awards agent.) For long haul, OZ would be my last choice of the three, but I would not go crazy over it.
OZ website has seatmaps buried in it somewhere, can also check seatexpert.com .
Returning from TPE, I would guess your options are limited to UA, NH and OZ. (Possibly could go SQ or TG will signigicant back tracking and a very creative UA awards agent.) For long haul, OZ would be my last choice of the three, but I would not go crazy over it.
OZ website has seatmaps buried in it somewhere, can also check seatexpert.com .
Jun 19, 2006, 4:36 pm
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Originally Posted by wendySFO
Any experience for Asiana flights in business class?
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
http://us.flyasiana.com/travelplanne...ht_seatmap.asp
Also there had been tons of thread about asiana's business in this forum, don't be lazy, do a search, most of the discussions are within a few months.
Jun 19, 2006, 4:42 pm
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I've flown in business on the 747 several times. The seats are old-fashioned to say the least, but not noticeably less spacious than United's. The service, however, is impeccable and the food is delicious. IFE leaves a lot to be desired and the food at the ICN lounge could be improved.
Jun 19, 2006, 5:32 pm
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Thanks to all for your help!
My bad that I should have done a search first, first time in this group, glad I found the right place. Thanks for the pointers and will read through and see if need more information.
My bad that I should have done a search first, first time in this group, glad I found the right place. Thanks for the pointers and will read through and see if need more information.
Jun 21, 2006, 12:14 am
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Originally Posted by N227UA
All Asiana 744s are also guaranteed craps.
772 is the one may be halfway decent or crappy. Have been on business class of both 744 and 763 of Asiana, I don't think she would have a comfortable flight on either aircraft. Go for another carrier.
Jun 22, 2006, 4:23 am
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Originally Posted by wendySFO
Any experience for Asiana flights in business class?
Booked an award ticket for my sister. Outbound is UA but return the agent can only find Asiana for her. The flights are from TPE -> ICN -> JFK in September. TPE -> ICN is OZ#712 with Boeing 767, ICN -> JFS is OZ#222 with Boeing 747.
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
Booked an award ticket for my sister. Outbound is UA but return the agent can only find Asiana for her. The flights are from TPE -> ICN -> JFK in September. TPE -> ICN is OZ#712 with Boeing 767, ICN -> JFS is OZ#222 with Boeing 747.
Have never taken the Asiana flights before and can't find seatmap information under seatguru. Want to make sure she can be comfortable for such a long flight so appreciate any information for the flights and lounge.
Other than on the A330 and some recently reconfigured B772 aircraft, Asiana has terrible Business Class seats.