Vancouver to North Asia, business class

Greetings. I have to do a trans-North Pacific this autumn and I'm
looking for recent anecdotes. I have some flexibility with my routing
and my greatest concern is comfort on the way.

Air Canada's website says they use a B-763 for the YVR-Osaka flight and
an A-343 for YVR-Narita. The seat pitch, seat width and seat recline
statistics are the same for both planes. In general I tend to prefer
Boeing aircraft because I find the Airbus to be less well
ventilated--but are there more compelling reasons to choose one flight
over the other?

Slightly less convenient in terms of itinerary would be Singapore Air
for YVR-Seoul. I have been on this flight previously and their B-777
with its 'SpaceBed' is quite nice. Is this enough to outweigh the
scheduling advantage of Air Canada? All considered opinions welcome.

cheers,

Henry

Henry wrote:
Air Canada's website says they use a B-763 for the YVR-Osaka flight and
an A-343 for YVR-Narita. The seat pitch, seat width and seat recline
statistics are the same for both planes. In general I tend to prefer
Boeing aircraft because I find the Airbus to be less well
ventilated-

Just a note that Air Canada does not pay for overhead air vents for its
aircraft but CP did (except for its DC10s). And with the ex CP fleet slowly
being replaced/disposed of, you are left with only AC aircraft which do not
have the overhead air vents.

So I am not sure this is an Airbus vs Boeing thing, it is more an Air Canada thing.

Air Canada has undoubtedly the worst food in Business Class we've ever
encountered (even worse than North West - and that's saying something!!). We
flew them on the following seperate legs - from LAX to Vancouver to Calgary
to Toronto; then Montreal to London.

On the LAX - Vancouver leg the salad was inedible - the Flight Attendant
commenting that she didn't know just what it was either - but no-one had
eaten it.

Singapore Air is so much superior it definitely overcomes any slight
scheduling disadvantage imo.




"Henry" wrote in message
.. .
Greetings. I have to do a trans-North Pacific this autumn and I'm
looking for recent anecdotes. I have some flexibility with my routing
and my greatest concern is comfort on the way.

Air Canada's website says they use a B-763 for the YVR-Osaka flight and
an A-343 for YVR-Narita. The seat pitch, seat width and seat recline
statistics are the same for both planes. In general I tend to prefer
Boeing aircraft because I find the Airbus to be less well
ventilated--but are there more compelling reasons to choose one flight
over the other?

Slightly less convenient in terms of itinerary would be Singapore Air
for YVR-Seoul. I have been on this flight previously and their B-777
with its 'SpaceBed' is quite nice. Is this enough to outweigh the
scheduling advantage of Air Canada? All considered opinions welcome.

cheers,

Henry

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:42:26 -0400, nobody wrote:

Henry wrote:
Air Canada's website says they use a B-763 for the YVR-Osaka flight and
an A-343 for YVR-Narita. The seat pitch, seat width and seat recline
statistics are the same for both planes. In general I tend to prefer
Boeing aircraft because I find the Airbus to be less well
ventilated-

Just a note that Air Canada does not pay for overhead air vents for its
aircraft but CP did (except for its DC10s). And with the ex CP fleet slowly
being replaced/disposed of, you are left with only AC aircraft which do not
have the overhead air vents.

So I am not sure this is an Airbus vs Boeing thing, it is more an Air Canada thing.

I doubt that there would be a significant difference in the air renovation
rates between aircraft types. Values are most likely set by airline
policy.

There might be between airlines, or between the past and the present. But
that's another story.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:42:26 -0400, nobody wrote:

Henry wrote:
Air Canada's website says they use a B-763 for the YVR-Osaka flight and
an A-343 for YVR-Narita. The seat pitch, seat width and seat recline
statistics are the same for both planes. In general I tend to prefer
Boeing aircraft because I find the Airbus to be less well
ventilated-

Just a note that Air Canada does not pay for overhead air vents for its
aircraft but CP did (except for its DC10s). And with the ex CP fleet slowly
being replaced/disposed of, you are left with only AC aircraft which do not
have the overhead air vents.

So I am not sure this is an Airbus vs Boeing thing, it is more an Air Canada thing.

I doubt that there would be a significant difference in the air renovation
rates between aircraft types. Values are most likely set by airline
policy.

There might be between airlines, or between the past and the present. But
that's another story.