United Airlines UA803&804 NRT-BKK
August 7, 2012
United BusinessFirst seat
Flying to Bangkok is becoming more frequent this year. Thanks to a UA’s NRT-BKK route availability, I quite often take advantage of this flight to Bangkok; otherwise, I fly Thai Airways.
Used GPU to fly in a BusinessFirst class this time. My seat was 6A (on UA803, B777-200) and I think this is the best choice thanks to the cabin right behind of First class and only 16 seats in this cabin. A person sitting next to me was a U.S. government employee and we talked how bad the United’s service was. I also dislike when flying United's China-US routes and domestic. It is hard to expect good services or more like elite passengers have already given up to receive good service.
However, I believe UA’s Asia Pacific flights tend to offer better services than the others because some flight attendants are Tokyo-based and they are more service-oriented. Thus, this flight was okay and I actually received much better services on my return flight on a UA 804 BKK-NRT.
The lie-flat seat is, in fact, quite good and very competitive to the other airlines although many Asian airlines, such as ANA, start to offer staggered seats, which there is no more “excuse me” seat. I slept very well on this flight but the only dislike about this flight is the departure time in Bangkok.
It departs at 6:00am, so I have to check out hotel around 3:30am to catch a cab to the airport. I also hate to take a taxi in the morning because some Bangkok taxi drivers tend to cheat customers and drive too fast. Plus, I have to depend on the breakfast served in the cabin while I want to sleep right away after taking off. Overall, both UA803 and 804 flights were pretty good except for the early morning flight.
Used GPU to fly in a BusinessFirst class this time. My seat was 6A (on UA803, B777-200) and I think this is the best choice thanks to the cabin right behind of First class and only 16 seats in this cabin. A person sitting next to me was a U.S. government employee and we talked how bad the United’s service was. I also dislike when flying United's China-US routes and domestic. It is hard to expect good services or more like elite passengers have already given up to receive good service.
However, I believe UA’s Asia Pacific flights tend to offer better services than the others because some flight attendants are Tokyo-based and they are more service-oriented. Thus, this flight was okay and I actually received much better services on my return flight on a UA 804 BKK-NRT.
The lie-flat seat is, in fact, quite good and very competitive to the other airlines although many Asian airlines, such as ANA, start to offer staggered seats, which there is no more “excuse me” seat. I slept very well on this flight but the only dislike about this flight is the departure time in Bangkok.
It departs at 6:00am, so I have to check out hotel around 3:30am to catch a cab to the airport. I also hate to take a taxi in the morning because some Bangkok taxi drivers tend to cheat customers and drive too fast. Plus, I have to depend on the breakfast served in the cabin while I want to sleep right away after taking off. Overall, both UA803 and 804 flights were pretty good except for the early morning flight.
