I have prepared two itinerates. I just cant decided on which one to go for. Each have their own streght and weaknesses. Im going LHR-NRT-BKK then a month later BKK-NRT then a week later NRT-LHR. The airlines, classes and flight times are listed below:

1)
London Heathrow – Tokyo Narita
13:00 – 09:00
Virgin Atlantic Flight VS900
Flight time: 11 hours
Thursday 22nd – Friday 23rd July
Upper Class

Tokyo Narita – Bangkok International
18:15 – 22:30
ANA Flight 915
Flight time: 6hrs 15mins
Friday 23rd July
Business Class

2)
Bangkok International – Tokyo Narita
23:50 – 07:55
ANA Flight 916
Flight time: 6hrs 5mins
Thursday 26th August
Business Class

3)
Tokyo Narita – London Heathrow
11:00 – 16:00
Virgin Atlantic Flight VS901
Flight time: 13hrs 30mins
Saturday 4th September
Upper Class


OR------------

1)
London Heathrow – Tokyo Narita
19:35 – 15:10
ANA Flight 202
Flight time: 11hrs 35mins
Thursday 22nd July – Friday 23rd July
Business Class

Tokyo Narita – Bangkok International
18:15 – 22:30
ANA Flight 915
Flight time: 6hrs 15mins
Friday 23rd July
First Class

2)
Bangkok International – Tokyo Narita
23:50 – 07:55
ANA Flight 916
Flight time: 6hrs 5mins
Thursday 26th August
First Class

3)
Tokyo Narita – London Heathrow
11:40 – 15:55
ANA Flight 201
Flight time: 12hrs 15mins
Saturday 4th September
Business Class



Its worth pointing out that the Virgin flights will be the Old J200 style seats and all the ANA flights listed will be New stlye seats.

Please help me decide!

Absent some discussion of your mileage-earning goals, this is not buzz-worthy.

sorry forgot to add - these are reward flights.

I will be spending 160k miles if i got with virgin+ana or 165k if i got with ANA all the way.

I appologise if this is the wrong forum to ask but im kinda new here. If a mod wants to move it plz go ahead.

Seems like your 2 proposals are similar except for the flight to Tokyo. The ANA flight seems less tiring as the Virgin flight arrives just as you are becoming sleepy. The Virgin flight also forces you to either find a hotel that will allow you to sleep during the day or wander around Tokyo for a few hours. Wandering may be fun, but you will be returning to Tokyo later in the trip.

Yeah I agree, I'd take the award that didn't have the 11 hour daytime layover in Tokyo, where you are going back to anyway. That's a day wasted pretty much. You could sleep at a day-use hotel, one in the airport maybe, but that's not exactly going to help reset your clock to the time zones there.

LHR-NRT return - ANA vs Virgin Atlantic
LHR-NRT return - ANA vs Virgin Atlantic
173,180 miles LHR- BKK&NRT any *A carrier - ur reccomendations?
Thailand, Japan and back in 173,180 Star alliance miles
Amex points - LHR - NRT & BKK - LHR

<rant> Is it so absolutely necessary to post in 4 different forums and yet more threads? </rant>

If you asked me, I would take the F flights on NH, no question. VS doesn't even cause the tinest scratch on NH's toes when comparing VS J vs. NH F, save for the limo service (which you'll be ineligible for) and the lounge (you can use any F lounge in LHR T3 if you flew NH F).

You mention you want the best possible seats. Really, there should be no question that (given seat availability) NH is the way to go.

Perhaps you can even find the odd LHR-SIN or v.v. that has an F seat available on SQ (will be quite a search, mind you) and you'd have pretty much tried all the best ones.

(Just saw your itin, if you have >170,000 miles, surely you can go F all the way? Why fly J between LHR and NRT? bmi's UK-Asia award in F is 160k)

Now book those tickets in F and stop posting in wrong forums