HKG J Class Seats

Old Feb 23, 2013 | 9:35 am
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HKG J Class Seats

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Just wondered what seats in J Class are on offered in HKG? Also have they remvoed the BKK-HKG service? I recall it was a MD11 before?
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Old Feb 23, 2013 | 11:56 am
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No BKK-HKG service since 2005 when HKG became non stop Yes they had MD11 till 2010.

HKG gets A343 most of the times with angled lie flats in J, the newest A333s with flat beds serve HKG very rarely. More flat bed seats will be installed next year.
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Old Feb 23, 2013 | 10:08 pm
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Originally Posted by Andaman
No BKK-HKG service since 2005 when HKG became non stop Yes they had MD11 till 2010.

HKG gets A343 most of the times with angled lie flats in J, the newest A333s with flat beds serve HKG very rarely. More flat bed seats will be installed next year.
I recall the md11 were ok especially row 1 in j class. You get a lot of leg room

Thanks so no flat beds available on this route? Which type of slanted beds? The old VS or other?
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Old Feb 24, 2013 | 3:58 am
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Originally Posted by correctioncx
Thanks so no flat beds available on this route? Which type of slanted beds? The old VS or other?
A panorama view to AY A343 J, with old colors:

http://www.finnair.fi/filecontent/co.../panorama.html

No old VS seats anymore. They have two ex-AF A343s, their J seats looks rather similar to AY old ones. The ex-AF planes will keep the old J seats.

So far 4 x 333 has the new flat bed seats, similar to SWISS. The HKG route will see more of these next year. Cabin views, many individual seats available:

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...ps66e082e6.jpg

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...psc1b62e26.jpg

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Old Feb 25, 2013 | 1:46 am
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Originally Posted by Andaman
A panorama view to AY A343 J, with old colors:

http://www.finnair.fi/filecontent/co.../panorama.html

No old VS seats anymore. They have two ex-AF A343s, their J seats looks rather similar to AY old ones. The ex-AF planes will keep the old J seats.

So far 4 x 333 has the new flat bed seats, similar to SWISS. The HKG route will see more of these next year. Cabin views, many individual seats available:

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...ps66e082e6.jpg

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/...psc1b62e26.jpg
I didn't realise they were AF aircrafts? I thought AY only bought the ex VS planes?

But for the AF planes, are those actual AF seats or they are AY seats? the AF seats are the worst in the market IMO.
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Old Feb 25, 2013 | 2:49 am
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Originally Posted by correctioncx
I didn't realise they were AF aircrafts? I thought AY only bought the ex VS planes?

But for the AF planes, are those actual AF seats or they are AY seats? the AF seats are the worst in the market IMO.
AY bought one used 340 from VS before they got new ones from Airbus. They replaced the seats in that one, so there's no practical differences with newer ones right now. No reason to avoid that one, unless you don't want to fly in an airframe from 90's. Some time ago AY also got two used 340s from AF, and didn't replace the seats nor the IFE. Those are ones to avoid right now.

However, the ex-VS bird will become undesirable in biz class next year since just recently AY announced that they won't put new full-flat seats into that one since it will be among the first ones to go (with ex-AF birds) once they get the 350s. But right now only geeks will notice the difference.
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those are def AF seats! The worst! I have bad backpain after a flight to CDG from HKG.

AY really needs to update the seats to full flat.
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Originally Posted by correctioncx
those are def AF seats! The worst! I have bad backpain after a flight to CDG from HKG.

AY really needs to update the seats to full flat.
Well, they will not upgrade those planes, so...
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