Asiana Airlines - any advice?

[Simsy85]

Hi all,

Thinking of booking Asiana Airlines for CBR - JFK at Christmas time - not ideal but a dear friend is getting married in NYC for a white wedding.

Given we will have done a number of direct to LAX flights this year (on the next one on Monday) thinking of something different. Asiana fly A380 all the way, and seem to provide a stop over at a reasonable (or nil cost) cost.

Has anyone flown them? what's your experience?

Cheers

Simsy

 

[boomy]

Flew them in J and F, overall they're great!

J hard product ex-SYD is not fully flat (yet) but perfectly fine for day flight. Their A380s are proper fully flat. Best features about OZ are service and meals, both among the best in the air. ICN airport is one of the best in the world, a breeze to transfer through.

 

[I love to travel]

What cabin? Premium ones have lovely service. Food is good in business and first but liking Asian food does help as the western options are run of the mill

 

[Simsy85]

Thanks team - good advice. I'm trying to get SWMBO to agree to flying J, but it's a tough argument.

Any advice on the stop overs? how do they work? i'm keen on a few days in Seoul on the way back, maybe a week or so.

 

[TomVexille]

Only ever flown them in Y but the service is good and there's more legroom than most other airlines.

 

[auriga]

Flew them in J and F, overall they're great!

J hard product ex-SYD is not fully flat (yet) but perfectly fine for day flight. Their A380s are proper fully flat. Best features about OZ are service and meals, both among the best in the air. ICN airport is one of the best in the world, a breeze to transfer through.

Are you sure about the ex-SYD equipment?
My recent flight with them was the full flat product (smartium or whatever....)

 

[Simsy85]

Are you sure about the ex-SYD equipment?
My recent flight with them was the full flat product (smartium or whatever....)

Everything I've seen indicates it's on A380-800's, which as i've seen is fully flat... sadly I think we'll be flying Y....

 

[boomy]

Are you sure about the ex-SYD equipment?
My recent flight with them was the full flat product (smartium or whatever....)

Surely used to be angled flat.
Do they send refurbished A330s to SYD now?

Everything I've seen indicates it's on A380-800's, which as i've seen is fully flat... sadly I think we'll be flying Y....

Ex-SYD is normally A330 service. OZ did use A380 at some point during the summer but it was for short time.

 

[BacchusMarsh]

Ex-SYD is normally A330 service. OZ did use A380 at some point during the summer but it was for short time.

OP did mention it was Christmas time.

Asiana W17 operation changes as of 12APR17 :: Routesonline

Seoul Incheon – Sydney 01DEC17 – 28FEB18 Re-introduction of seasonal A380 service, 1 daily

 

[TomVexille]

Surely used to be angled flat.
Do they send refurbished A330s to SYD now?



Ex-SYD is normally A330 service. OZ did use A380 at some point during the summer but it was for short time.

Yeah the A380 was just to match KE when they brought it down for a short period. I've seen 777s into SYD regularly but they used to pretty much always be the older angled seats.

 

[boomy]

OP did mention it was Christmas time.

Asiana W17 operation changes as of 12APR17 :: Routesonline

Seoul Incheon – Sydney 01DEC17 – 28FEB18 Re-introduction of seasonal A380 service, 1 daily

My apologies, I missed the announcement.

Do they sell F on this route or F seat with J service?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

My apologies, I missed the announcement.

Do they sell F on this route or F seat with J service?

I didn't think they sold F on this route? I know there was some excitement initially when F availability and F awards showed up, but I'm not sure that materialised in the end?

previous history with OZ suggests if they have the F cabin available for J seating it will either go to their top tiers or be available for a (not insubstantial) supplement payable in addition to the regular J fare. This was the case on the ORD routes when they ceased F service but had the F cabins.

 

[JohnK]

I flew them in business 5-6 years ago SYD-ICN-MNL and no issues other than 50 minute connection in ICN getting shorter and had to run to make the connection. From memory an A340 was used then but I could be wrong.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I flew them in business 5-6 years ago SYD-ICN-MNL and no issues other than 50 minute connection in ICN getting shorter and had to run to make the connection. From memory an A340 was used then but I could be wrong.

They didn't operate the A340. I think it was a 330 even back then.

 

[Pele]

Yeah the A380 was just to match KE when they brought it down for a short period. I've seen 777s into SYD regularly but they used to pretty much always be the older angled seats.

Gday

I flew ICN- SYD at the end of April 2017 and it was a 777 with the Business Smartium product (ie full flat bed). As others have mentioned- great service and food and if you can get the full flat J product you are laughing. Would fly them again in a heartbeat.

Pele.

 

[CJEMNMAC]

Gday

I flew ICN- SYD at the end of April 2017 and it was a 777 with the Business Smartium product (ie full flat bed). As others have mentioned- great service and food and if you can get the full flat J product you are laughing. Would fly them again in a heartbeat.

Pele.

I have a booking in October 2017 for JFK - ICN - SYD and the OZ website shows ICN - SYD has smartium J

 

[seanpodge]

Have flown OZ a few times (twice in J, twice in Y) and been impressed every time. Would fly them more often if they had better connections into China and flew to MEL instead of SYD. Still, they're worth giving a try.

ICN is also pretty impressive.

 

[Fantic125]

Quite happy with OZ. Last year flew them CDG to ICN, and prior to that a few times between MNL-ICN and ICN-LAX (all in Y).

Clean cabins, good food and service and generally comfortable flights. Happy to recommend them.

 

[GCC]

I have a booking in October 2017 for JFK - ICN - SYD and the OZ website shows ICN - SYD has smartium J

The question of actual aircraft flown is confusing. I booked (via QF codeshare) SYD - ICN and return end of August 2017, and appeared to be smartium. I tried a dummy booking on the OZ website, and clikcing on details does show a 777-L 3 class config with smartium, but both Expertflyer and QF booking page show 777-200 with 2-2-2 configuration.

 

[serfty]

Flew 'em in economy at Easter NRT-ICN return.

They were fine and the service was good.

I would do again without a worry.