I'm giving up on Emirates for a while..
 

I travel business class and the product from the UK is way too variable for my liking. Despite looking up the aircraft type to ensure that I get the one with the better seat & ICE, what I actually end up getting is often quite different.

The other day I was looking forward to catching up on some movies in peace, and ended up enduring a long day flight with a terrible middle seat and the worst ICE system.

I think I'll wait another year...

As long as the 332/343s are around there'll always be the dreadful J and non-ICE IFE and with EK's track record of a/c substitution the situation would most likely remain the same for quite some time.

Add to the fact that the 772s have just all undergone cabin retrofits, there's little doubt that J would not see the new improved J/cl for years to come.

I think once the 773s have been refitted, the situation will be (much) better. Airbus <--> Boeing subtitutions rarely happen in my experience because the seating capacity of the A330/A340 is so much less than the of the B772/B773 planes. If EK has dedicated a 772 on a route, it isn't very likely that it will be switched to a 330. I have seen this sort of change but only on short routes such as DOH-DXB, DXB-KHI and DAM-DXB.

Cheers

....scumballs switched me from a B773 to an A330....I think I've flown on every EK A330 in the fleet.....at least I got to fly on the B773 from DXB-LHR recently...:D

...too bad it wasn't the -300ER though....:td:

...oddly enough, when I go to Pakistan soon, I won't be flying EK out of LHR...but rather either PK direct or BA to DXB...of course, which will mean I'll probably have to fly EK again (I guess I can take PK)....the LCC's ..no way...not worth the terminal change in DXB....

MH also does DXB-KHI albeit infrequently. If the timings worth out, they are definately worth a try. Other good options if flying BA to the middle east are via AUH (Etihad onwards) via MCT (Thai onwards) or DOH (Qatar Airways onwards.)

Cheers

thanks for the headsup.....^

MH would certainly be worth a try....and I would love to fly EY's B773ER out of AUH..........but I'm still an EK miles junkie..so it very well might have to be EK out of DXB again....:D

...all of this is predicated on the fact if I don't fly on PK out of LHR....which is 50/50 between PK and BA...

Or else if you're brave enough you can fly MAN-ESB-ISB-KHI on an airblue A321;)

I'll pass....;)

While I don't have any particular problems with ED, I'm going to stick with the larger boys......:)