Is Royal Silk as good as peers?
Apr 9, 2015, 2:26 pm
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Is Royal Silk as good as peers?
Hi
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
Last edited by 2358; Apr 9, 2015 at 2:58 pm Reason: Wrong airport
Apr 9, 2015, 3:39 pm
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Hi
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
Apr 9, 2015, 4:53 pm
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Hi
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
Thai appear to operate 747 on the LHR-BKK route, but looking on their website/seatguru it looks like the Business seats may be the old style, i.e. not fully flat- am guessing this is why they are so much cheaper than others (same price as BA WT+). Can anyone confirm? How comfortable is the 747 in Royal Silk?
Thanks
As mentioned, A380 operates the route from 1st July.
Apr 9, 2015, 9:50 pm
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I am the dissenter..!
While i like the privacy and all-aisle access of the new staggered seating I found it to have much less personal space in bed mode and actually very uncomfortable for sleeping. Effectively from your waist down you are sleeping in a tunnel.
At 6ft 5" the bed is too short so i need to sleep on my side and bend my legs and there simply wasnt space to do this. Give me the old regular seat any day... Having said that 90% of the population is probably fine in this seat.
But given a choice between BA Y+ or TG J for the same money it would be an absolute no brainer to still take TG..
While i like the privacy and all-aisle access of the new staggered seating I found it to have much less personal space in bed mode and actually very uncomfortable for sleeping. Effectively from your waist down you are sleeping in a tunnel.
At 6ft 5" the bed is too short so i need to sleep on my side and bend my legs and there simply wasnt space to do this. Give me the old regular seat any day... Having said that 90% of the population is probably fine in this seat.
But given a choice between BA Y+ or TG J for the same money it would be an absolute no brainer to still take TG..
Apr 10, 2015, 1:46 am
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many other airlines have such staggered seating in J with your legs in a "tunnel" for sleeping. That's the disadvantage for going full flat and keeping pitches low
but I prefer tunnelled full flat over angle-flat anytime!
Apr 10, 2015, 3:19 am
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Apr 11, 2015, 10:11 pm
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