eternaltransit

Should have made it the Sofitel So instead - they have a pool party on Saturday

http://www.so-sofitel-bangkok.com/wi...he-water-club/

skywardhunter

As per the op-up thread finally back in J after a 1-year hiatus (back in Y on EK772 in a few hours though...), And noticed the hot towels after boarding are larger and better quality. Not all cost cutting after all...?

Also a newer 77W (EGU) with the thinner (but not thinnest) tablet controllers, which is unusual on an India route.

Lkaroo

A few random observations...

1) Chocolates are now supplied by Neuhaus in J/F.

2) Sandwiches at the bar on the a380 are now packaged. I guess the cost of packaging is less than having a greater ability to recycle food from flight to flight?




3) Was on a very old airframe (A6-EBM) the other day which has an updated OnAir Wi-Fi interface where you could watch Live TV through your phone / laptop. It actually worked very well and the quality was much better than on the screen. Haven't found this to be available on any flight since.

skywardhunter

That is interesting!!! I hope long-term EK doesn't plan to replace seat-back IFE with streaming, but I'm sure they won't, purely for the cost of changing so many aircraft, they won't want the inconsistency of half the fleet having built-in IFE, + they make a point of having best IFE in class.

Addition of streaming is a nice potential value-add though, Live TV obviously uses a different satellite band to the WiFi, so interesting to see them splice the two together into the OnAir network.

On that note, I'm really appreciating the unlimited free Wifi in Y that I'm getting with the recent EK Wifi Changes. Also their Wifi card in the seat back pocket has some great info. A380s bandwidth of 864kbps and 777s between 2-3mbps

DYKWIA

Did Bully's tonight on the way back from the dinner cruise. Pretty soulless American style bar IMO. Maybe 20 people in there at 22:00.

Craft was very nice (Soi 23).

There's a great Mexican style place next to the hotel. Open 24 hours a day, and came in very handy when we arrived at 1am desperate for food and drink after our diverted flight adventure.

Doing Vertigo tomorrow... I'm not expecting the food to be great, but what the heck, we're in Bangkok.

Another great storm at the moment.

Flame3601

That moment when you think you have been op-up'ed as the check in agent is sticking first class bag tags on your bag , even thou you are traveling in J. Then you get all hyped then pop the question and get a reply of ," oh no , we just ran out of business class bag tags."


grrrrr

m3red

Standard for platinums in any class.

RichardAtCT

Not worth its own post, but a quick thanks to everyone here!

Going to be hitting Skywards Gold on an upcoming trip later this month - JUST ahead of my honeymoon trip (mostly in economy). My soon to be wife is very excited to enjoy all of the various Emirates lounges on our journey to Bali.

m3red

Enjoy! If you have a flex plus you'll be in good shape for an upgrade

sydtogla

Or for Golds if you speak nicely...

RichardAtCT

Just Flex sadly. But one can be hopeful. Also going to look at cash-upgrading once Emirates takes over the booking from the "TA" after the first segment. (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/emira...y-booking.html)

Flame3601

Congrats , if the wedding is also within the next few weeks then i am sure the CPT Flyertalk crowd wouldn't mind popping in to spread the love on your special day ..

skywardhunter

Metanoia

If anyone is going to be at HopFest Dubai today I'll be there. I'm the Asian guy with the glasses and the fro, hard to miss. My tourist sim expired so I'm "off the grid" today. Otherwise I'll be in the F lounge tomorrow the 10th from 11-2.

Looking forward to seeing ppl there!

m3red

If I wasn't so hungover I'd come out!

I think DYKWIA is there today too...