Best Wine Selection
Aug 7, 2001 | 7:28 pm
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Best Wine Selection
The following is an excerpt from today's FT (Financial Times). Do you agree?
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High-flyers with a nose in front
Passengers on Thai Airways enjoy the best international business-class wine selection, a panel of judges has decided. Northwest Airlines came second, followed by Air New Zealand.
The competition was the latest in an annual series organised by Business Traveller magazine. The rest of the top 10, in order, were Air Canada, Finnair, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Icelandair, LanChile and British Airways.
America West's wines were voted best in first class on US domestic flights - with Delta's in second place.
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[This message has been edited by Yongs (edited 08-07-2001).]
(Beginning of quote)
High-flyers with a nose in front
Passengers on Thai Airways enjoy the best international business-class wine selection, a panel of judges has decided. Northwest Airlines came second, followed by Air New Zealand.
The competition was the latest in an annual series organised by Business Traveller magazine. The rest of the top 10, in order, were Air Canada, Finnair, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Icelandair, LanChile and British Airways.
America West's wines were voted best in first class on US domestic flights - with Delta's in second place.
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[This message has been edited by Yongs (edited 08-07-2001).]
Aug 7, 2001 | 11:02 pm
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I'm not a true wine connoisseur, but I fault AA for not having any California chardonnays in international business class. They have a good one in first, a drinkable one in economy, but none at all in the middle. They do have a French Burgundy, which is the same basic grape and which some might prefer, but to those weaned on American wines it's a different taste that I happen not to like as much.
When I'm in AA business class, which is most of the time on international flights, I explain this to the FA and ask him or her to please get me some from either "back there [pointing aft] or up there [pointing forward] - your choice." It's usually from "back there." On my last trip it was from "up there," and the FA refilled my glass twice. She got an SOS for her efforts.
When I'm in AA business class, which is most of the time on international flights, I explain this to the FA and ask him or her to please get me some from either "back there [pointing aft] or up there [pointing forward] - your choice." It's usually from "back there." On my last trip it was from "up there," and the FA refilled my glass twice. She got an SOS for her efforts.
Aug 9, 2001 | 9:23 am
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My sample space over the last two years has been CX (HKG-MNL, twice) and UA (many times). CX has a very nice list in C, somebody was thinking. UA, IMHO, has actually been improving, except for the champagne, but has a long way to go.
Aug 9, 2001 | 3:44 pm
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This topic of discussion is for FlyerTalk Travel, not FlyerTalk Miles. I regret that I do not have the ability to move to FlyerTalk Travel at this time. This thread will now be closed.
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