stuie2210

Excellent report, thank you for the time and effort it takes.
I agree about the wifi, i cannot work out why most (actually not sure if any dont) charge first passengers for it - it seems rather cheap not to comp it when it is compared to the ticket price.

TOMFORD

Great report, wonderful food photos. Thank you for sharing!

thekfc

Nice Pics & report!!!

Flyingfox

Excellent report and thanks much! Great pictures!

Call me crazy, but I really miss the Jetsons-like F class seats from the 2000s. The green-foam ones with the orange table and cream leather. Just adored them. These newer "suites" are cosmetically different from the last generation (grey-coloured) seats, but otherwise seem pretty much the same.

Their food looks nice. The bland tableware is another step down from the previous style, which had nice geometric designs, I think.

themapelligroup

We don't see many reports of JAL F here, this trip report was excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Goosh

Excellent report.

ZFW-ATC

Thanks for the report on JL F. I totally have to agree with you that JL F is a worthy competitor for CX F to Asia. I flew them in January NRT-LAX and loved it so much that I have them booked for my January trip back from Singapore.

SFO and BKK also have passenger loading on different levels from the main concourse level.

Eric

tng11

Beautiful report and exactly what I wanted to read!

I have this exact same NRT-JFK flight booked for January 2015. I've never flown CX F before, and have two JFK-HKG segments coming up this year and went for JL F for a little variety. Looks like I won't regret that choice!

Joely

I made exactly the same mistake when I first went to NRT. I don't think it's a lack of signage I think it is just a very confusing setup!

Moomba

Thanks for an interesting report. I notice the western menu is the same as the one I had last April from NRT-LHR.

I am doing this same flight in a little over 4 weeks. I wonder if I will end up having the same choices as I did a year ago.

arlflyer

Good to know, as I'll be heading to both of those in the next year!


I went into this flight having heard the virtues of CX sung for years and with two CX F flights under my belt in the previous 2 weeks. I'd seen very little data on JL and didn't know what to expect. It was the wild card, and it really impressed me!


The funny thing, though, is that the 4F lounge is in my opinion better. So it was a good mistake. Next time we fly out of NRT, we'll be hanging out there, save perhaps for heading to CX for some ice cream.


You know, in the body of my report I was actually going to mention that I'd noticed that it was the same menu you'd seen. But then I remembered that your flight was NRT-LHR, and of course mine was NRT-JFK, so I figured it might be simply coincidence, and given the few data points on the JL F product I wrote it off as such. However, one option could be that they cater all ex-NRT flights with this menu. They do advertise that the menus are created by specific chefs that they name, so of course this means there's probably a finite number of menus. That said, I can't believe that a major airline would really be that limited. Guess we'll see when you fly in 4 weeks. Hopefully by the time I fly NRT-ORD in early 2015 they'll have switched it up a bit!

JALPak

You will probably get same menu. This is the spring menu till May 2014 (http://www.jal.co.jp/inflight/inter/...403_201405.pdf)


Yes, all ex-NRT F to the US and Europe have the same menu. Different one for CGK because that's medium-haul.

jmj9905

Great trip report. I flew nrt/ord in mid January. I do agree that JAL service is very good. The menu I had in January was as good as you would get in a top flight restauarant. The entrée I had was beef rosini, which is a filet topped with foie grae servied with a black truffle sauce. It was incredible

I have flown CX f several times in the last 5 0r 6 years and I have to say JL has inproved theie product (hard & soft) tremendously.

I am flying CX F in mid april so I will see how it goes.

tng11

If I am reading your report correctly though, was the cabin temperature set very high? If so, that wouldn't be the first time I've read that about JL.

arlflyer

Yes, that was my perception. It was warmer than I preferred, at least for the first bit. It probably would have been too warm for me to sleep well if I had tried. That said, I generally like the ambient temperature to be colder than most people do, so YMMV. The other pax seemed to be quite soundly asleep!