suvayanr

PJs only on China or SYD routes

ATOBTTR

Only TPAC to China (including HKG) and Australia. D1 routes to Japan (incl. NRT) and flights to ICN do not get Delta One PJs (and we did not get them on NRT-DTW last year when I flew D1).

https://news.delta.com/delta-one-fli...a-destinations

salsa

There is a priority security line for transfers at NRT for business-class customers and delta elites though at times the line seems loner than the one for non-priority.

anon2k2

I've never understood the transfer security line at NRT. I've just come off an airplane where I've been screened and OK'd to get on it, funneled through a secure & quarantined hallway after getting off the plane at NRT, and now I have to get re-screened to catch my connecting flight two gates from where I arrived.

If I had gone through immigration/customs and out to the check-in area, I totally get that I would need to be re-screened, but I really don't get why on a transfer.

Zorak

Presumably you feel the same way about the procedure for international arrivals into the US?

dalehill

Ah but apparently DL can plant contraband on you on the way to NRT, doncha know?!

On a DL SEA-SIN flight with transfer at NRT as you described, DL metal all the way, traveling in J. Stuffed the SEA-NRT amenity kit in my bag before deplaning.

Got pulled from the security line at NRT because of the little black pen with the Tumi logo on it inside the Tumi bag.

It was a big problem, requiring a long delay. I explained I just got that thing from the Delta plane I just got off of and that she could keep it if she wanted to because I will get an identical pen on the SIN flight. No, no, she doesn't want to just throw it out. But she's not at all comfortable letting me pass with this thing DL gave me between SEA and NRT. She was very, very sweet and very apologetic about the delay and the kerfuffle, and she did eventually decide that my pen could safely travel with me, but reluctantly, and only after careful inspection, including taking the pen apart.

You never know what's going to set them off, but I never in a thousand years would have suspected the pen in the amenity kit would be it. 😂

bgriff

Back to the original question perhaps?

If you like Japanese food, you can pre-book the Japanese meal for your PDX-NRT flight. You can also try to order it on board, but they often run out, so prebooking guarantees you'll get it. If you want to do that, it's under the special requests section of My Trips on delta.com, same place where you would request a vegetarian/kosher/etc. meal.

Otherwise there's not too many secrets to business class to discover, but it should be an enjoyable flight, especially for the first time. No PJs on Japan flights, as others have said, but if you want you could bring a change of clothes. There are fairly big bathrooms on the 767s that are used on the PDX-NRT route that have enough space to change in comfortably.

Most other things you might need will be provided. There will be a water bottle waiting at your seat when you board, and you'll be given an amenity kit with a toothbrush, eye shade, lotion, etc. I believe all Japan routes also get a pair of small, flimsy slippers if you want to use those.

If you happen to enjoy champagne, be aware that the sparkling wine you will be offered by the flight attendants during boarding is cheap stuff, but a better and more expensive real champagne is served once you are up in the air (because airlines don't have to pay duty on booze served in the air on international flights). So if you try and don't like the stuff they serve during boarding, it could still be worth giving it another shot after takeoff.

bgriff

In most places you have to reclear security for an international to international connection. The implication is that the connecting country (in this case Japan) doesn't trust the security procedures of the originating country (in this case the US, or the Philippines, depending on direction).

And more importantly, even if Japan does trust US security, they still have to screen you if they don't trust Philippines security, because passengers coming off planes from both places mingle in the same area as they walk toward transit security or immigration. So in theory if Philippines (or some other country, don't mean to pick on them but it was the example pertinent to the thread) security is deficient and someone is able to smuggle something they're not supposed to have onto the plane departing MNL, that person could hand it off to someone coming off the US flight in the area leading up to transit security.

Some airports, like AMS and FRA, are configured so that there are two options: passengers arriving from trusted countries like the US can be let out into the main terminal, similar to how you arrive on a domestic flight in the US except for that you would still need to clear immigration if you are going to leave the airport. Meanwhile passengers arriving from non-trusted countries are sent through a different channel and have to reclear security before they can take a connecting flight. But most airports aren't set up with those different channels, and the regulator in Japan would also need to have a structure in place for "trusting" other countries which may not exist now anyway.

pvn

In the US you're basically landside once you go through immigration and you have access to carry-on bags. There's no way to allow those people back airside without a screen.

Steve007NY

S KEMET-

One unmentioned advantage of flying Delta one is the use of the club prior to departure and doing connections. Quite relaxing, generally good food (I don’t know the PDX club specifically) and I’m sure you’ll have access to a partner club in Manila.
it IS worth checking out the order in advance menu, or checking FT for current transpacific menus.
Enjoy,

MSPeconomist

Zorak

Ok, but my post that you replied to was from March, and the linked news article is two years old the more recent indications in the other thread are that they're gone.

MSPeconomist

btonkid12345

Just flew SYD-LAX and back and they were not offered (and I forgot to ask). Did not see any other passengers with them either.

I knew 2 of the FAs well and think they would have offered them to me if they were loaded...

Hilariously, I have 1 pair of these from when I flew ICN-SEA in the back; the gate couldn't figure out how to clear my GUC despite empty seats up front, and the FAs felt bad and treated me very nicely in the back, including PJs. They're nothing special IMO and I rarely wear them due to poor fit.

Gig103

My theory on this is that all the D1 passengers disembark first, and they/we all follow the signs for business class security, resulting in a potential queue if there aren't other planes arriving at the same time.