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Time to cancel my SQ booking...
Success! Writing this from Paris after arriving earlier this morning on SYD-xBKK-CDG TG F booked via LifeMiles.
"New" 747 F on SYD-BKK with 6/10 seats taken. Not a bad seat (although pretty dated now), and sitting in the nose of a 747 (I had 1A) has a certain pleasant feeling to it
Service was good, food and champagne were good - only downside was some irritatingly loud Germans I shared the cabin with. Hardly TG's fault though.
Really enjoyed the ~7 hours at the BKK lounge (with an hour massage thrown in for good measure). A quick wander through the airport reminded me how average BKK airport is overall though - give me SIN any day! Food was excellent, drinks only OK - but the best part was the service. So good! Love the buggy/escort service to/from the plane too - even if the distance is short it's great to be able to sit in the lounge till the last minute and be taken to your flight just before takeoff.
Final leg BKK-CDG was on one of the leased Jet Airways 777-300ERs. I can see what people mean when they say the F cabin on these birds is feeling a bit tired - almost seemed like it was poor quality build to begin with, and it's really starting to show?That being said, it's still a great hard product and a huge step up over the 747 F cabin. I think it might be the same seats that QFF use in their A380s - albeit in a different "suite config"? I quite liked the "private suite" with the door closed too. Drinks were again good but the sushi I ordered for (very late) supper was terrible - luckily the rest of the food was good, and I was full from earlier dinner in the lounge anyway.
As an aside, these back to back flights were a good reminder of what a nice plane the 777 is too - noticeably smoother and quieter than the preceding 747.
Finally, by way of comparison, my only other F flight to date was on QF A380 and I'd have to say the QF experience was better in just about every way - but that's not to take anything away from TG here, we're talking about really great vs really, really great
I got lucky on the QF flight too and scored an exceptional FA, which makes a big difference.
So, all-in-all, a very enjoyable journey
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