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[zainman]

Just searched for the dates - no specific airline and just left it with the smart search. Seems it's pretty easy to get J SYD - ICN, though only seemed to be 1 F to JFK though pretty much wide open next october

Was nearly going to pop over to NRT and try out ANA F as I hear their new square seats are pretty good, and I wanted to add another rimowa toiletries bag to my collection.

F to the USA on OZ seemed pretty easy to get. Didn't have much luck finding any to LHR CDG

was ANA F available from NRT? Do you remember which cities it was available to?

 

[ketsuzei]

was ANA F available from NRT? Do you remember which cities it was available to?

I've seen CDG and LHR out of NRT before, but had to call them after getting an error. I'm flying CDG-NRT in a couple of weeks, and can also see some LHR-NRT around the same time. No errors encountered on those.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

was ANA F available from NRT? Do you remember which cities it was available to?

I was looking mainly at JFK but IIRC I saw it also to LAX. Was from NRT

This was in Oct 2015 - Was looking around the 20th

 

[ketsuzei]

For the US, I've recently booked SFO-NRT in NH F, and NRT-ORD is pretty easy to find in either direction, sometimes two flights a day.

 

[drron]

Recently when looking for an F redemption LAX-NRT LM would come up routing via ICN.But if I looked up LAX-BKK it would give me ANA F to NRT then via ICN to BKK.Could never get the ANA flights by themselves.
So flying JL instead.

 

[vitagen]

I'm travelling BOD-IST-BKK-SIN in J coming back from Europe in April

 

[JessicaTam]

I'm travelling BOD-IST-BKK-SIN in J coming back from Europe in April

How long ago did you book?

 

[vitagen]

I booked close to 10.5 months out... Managed to get it before devalued. Hard to burn the rest of my LM. wanting to get to Japan but they seemed to block connecting TG flights.

 

[JessicaTam]

I booked close to 10.5 months out... Managed to get it before devalued. Hard to burn the rest of my LM. wanting to get to Japan but they seemed to block connecting TG flights.

No worries, Ta.

 

[NDiddy]

Second booking on Lifemiles:

2pax
SYD-BKK-FCO - TG F - 230K + $187 (including $50 booking fee)
CPH-BKK-MEL - TG J - 170K + $137 (including $50 booking fee)

Used 2 accounts to book each of legs. Flights are for Sept/Oct 15. Fairly straight forward itin but very happy to be able to find something that works given the recent availability challenges but this has worked out quite nicely.

Now to make sure I get a table at Noma

 

[ketsuzei]

Now to make sure I get a table at Noma

I can tell you what the Tokyo version is like just over a month from now

 

[NDiddy]

I can tell you what the Tokyo version is like just over a month from now

Please do I would love to hear the review...

 

[TheBOSman]

For the US, I've recently booked SFO-NRT in NH F, and NRT-ORD is pretty easy to find in either direction, sometimes two flights a day.

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There are two flights just about every day on NRT-ORD and NRT-JFK with NH, all of which have F. Other routes are once daily NRT-LAX and NRT-SFO, and NRT-IAH should have F once it starts. I booked NRT-JFK in NH F with LM pre-devaluation without issue. Availability is good in advance in January, and decent-ish in December and February, and pretty awful the rest of the year.

OZ F is also widely available ICN-LAX, on the A380, I have that booked as well with LM pre-devaluation in F. ICN-JFK as well, that should be a 777-200ER but with OZ Suites in F (A380 has these as well).

 

[anat0l]

For the US, I've recently booked SFO-NRT in NH F, and NRT-ORD is pretty easy to find in either direction, sometimes two flights a day.

NRT/ORD is the easiest route to find NH F on (I'm not saying it's dead simple, but of all routes...). NRT/IAD is next IME.

Note that unless ANA have completely refitted their fleet or redeployed aircraft, one of the daily NRT/ORD flights is operated by a 777 with old F product.

 

[tallboy]

My 2014 LM bookings:

3xJ JNB-PER (SA A340) Jan'14
1xJ CPH-OSL-BKK-MEL (SK 738 & TG 77Wx2) July'14
1xJ MEL-SIN-ZRH-LUX (SQ A380x2 + LX A320) Sept'14
1XJ ARN-BKK-MEL (TG 77Wx2) Oct'14

All booked online without issue, travelled without issue.

SA bookings were 7 months prior to travel.
TG bookings were within a few weeks.
SQ A380 legs were 14 days exactly.

 

[VAG newbie]

My booking this year:
1. 4xJ SIN-CDG on SQ A380, Aug 14.
2. 2xJ ZRH-SIN on SQ A380, 2x ZRH-NRT LH 744, Aug 14.
3. 1xJ NRT-YYZ on AC 77W, YYZ-LAX-HND on AC A320 and NH 772, Oct 14.

Booking for 2015:
1. 2xJ BNE-TPE on BR A330, then 2xY TSA-HND on NH 767, then 2xJ NRT-TPE-BNE, NH767 and BR A330. Feb 15.
2. 1xJ BNE-TPE-LHR on BR A330 and 77W. May 2015.
3. 1xJ PER-JNB-GRU on SA A340, Oct 15.

Travel this his year has no issues. Some bookings had the error message at check out, but was able to be booked by calling/emailing LM with no problem.

 

[777]

Just booked

3 x PER-JNB-GRU in J for next Xmas.

 

[BobbyFlyer]

My bookings for 2014 were:
1. 4xF SIN-NRT-HNL (UA 777 and 747). Sept 14.
2. 4xJ PER-SIN (SQ 777). Sept 14.
3. 4xJ SFO-TPE-SIN (BR 777-300). Oct 14.
4. 1xJ SIN-LHR (SQ A380). Aug 14.
5. 1xF LHR-BKK (TG 747). Aug 14.
6. 1xJ BKK-SIN (SQ A330). Aug 14.

My bookings for 2015 (so far) are:
1. 4xJ SIN-CDG (SQ A380). Jul 15.
2. 2xJ CDG-YYZ (AC 767). Jul 15.
3. 4xJ IAD-DXB (UA 777). Jul 15.

No issues booking or travelling.

 

[Guvner]

My bookings for 2015 (so far) are:
1. 4xJ SIN-CDG (SQ A380). Jul 15.

Same here. I'm booked 4xJ on this route for the 27th July 2015.

 

[Alanslegal]

My bookings for 2015 (so far) are:
1. 4xJ SIN-CDG (SQ A380). Jul 15.

I assume you are on SQ336 which departs just a bit after midnight. My flight departs a bit earlier than yours on the 14th at 23:55 when I fly off to Tokyo. Will PM you closer to the date to see if you want to meet up the lounge and have a complimentary drink on SQ