ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 19261 times:
19 December 2008
Reason for Trip
Its X’mas time and thus time for me to do some travelling. With all my mileage I gathered during the year, I managed to claim 2 J tickets with MH to Tokyo. We also decided to pay a visit for a couple of days to Sapporo as we have not been there before (I did not tell the wife the main reason to go Tokyo was to try out domestic J in Japan!)
Jakarta (CGK) – Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
Malaysia Airlines MH722
Aircraft: B777-200ER
Registration: 9M-MRN
1st Flight: 21 Mar 2002
ETD: 1830
ETA: 2130
ATD: 1830
ATA: 2120
Seat : 5A (Golden Club Class / Business Class)
Flight Time: 1hr 35min
Pre Flight
As most of you guys already know, I do not usually write up on my CGK-KUL-CGK sectors, but this time I decided to do so as there was a last minute equipment change from an A333 to B772ER. Not too sure why as although he flight was pretty full in both classes, the A333 actually seats more passengers. Maybe cargo load was the reason.
MRN waiting for us to board
In Flight
Nothing much to write up on this short hop, but as usual a full hot meal was served and as you might have expected, a great MH inflight crew as usual.
Inside MRN
Dinner Menu
Dinner
AVOD was also turned on for this shop hop to KUL
As usual you got your businessmen going back to KUL and also a mix of holiday makers.
Service: 9/10
Food: 6/10
Aircraft:9/10
Hotel Stay
Westin Kuala Lumpur
Room: 9/10 (Deluxe Suite)
Location:10/10
Service:8/10
20 December 2008
Kuala Lumpur (KUL) – Tokyo (NRT)
Malaysia Airlines MH88
Aircraft: B777-200ER
Registration: 9M-MRL
1st Flight: 1 March 2001
ETD: 2335
ETA: 0700
ATD: 2350
ATA: 0658
Seat : 4A (Golden Club Class / Business Class)
Flight Time: 6hr 00min
Pre Flight
My overnight stay at the Westin KL was great, and the perks of being a SPG Platinum member, I got upgraded to a deluxe suite upon check in. Our 24 hours in KL was spent meeting up with old friends and just having a great time as everyone was relaxed towards this holiday season. We arrived at the airport with 2 hours to spare and I decided to park my butt at the Golden Club Lounge whereas my wife and sis in law decided to walk around the duty free stores.
View from the entrance of the Golden Lounge, really nice lighting
Entrance to the Golden Lounge
MRL will be ride to NRT tonight
In Flight
Really great being aboard another MH flight, and as usual a great cabin crew welcomed us aboard.
J aboard the B772ER
Menu
I noticed there were 7 empty seats in J, but it was full to the brim back in Y.
Getting ready for pushba
Mood Lighting in action once we were airborne
Once we reached cruise, the AVOD was turned on, but they had several problems with it and had to restart it several times. But after about 15mins, it was up and running fine.
As it was a late night departure to NRT, we were only served satay.
We slept through most of the flight and we woke up around 1 hour before descent to a great meal of the famous Nasi Lemak.
Top of descent and getting ready for arrivals into NRT
Touchdown
Many tails as usual in NRT, also another MH bird which was the earlier flight from KUL already down in NRT
Theres nothing like spending a nice flight with MH.
Service:9/10
Food:8/10
Aircraft:8/10
21 December 2009
Tokyo (HND) – Sapporo (CTS)
All Nippon Airways NH63
Aircraft: B777-300 (Domestic Config)
Registration: JA751A
1st Flight: 15 May 1998
ETD: 1200
ETA: 1335
ATD: 1220
ATA: 1340
Seat : 1A (Super Seat Premium / Business Class)
Flight Time: 1hr 15min
Pre Flight
After getting our bags and clearing customs and immigration, its straight onto the Airport Limosine Bus and direct transfers to Haneda Airport. After around 1 hour of travelling time we arrived. Then it’s a quick bag drop off, had lunch at the food area and then the rest of the time was just spent chilling at the ANA lounge near our gate.
Check in areas at Haneda ANA Terminal
I also paid a quick visit to the viewing terrace
Long walk to the lounge near our departure gate
The lounge was simple but had a smart looking feel to it with an airy feel.
Our ride to CTS
In Flight
As you can imagine, its really cramped on this domestic B773 version, even in J, but it was bearable for the short hop to CTS.
Inflight Magazine and Duty Free
Scenes during the taxi
Climbing to cruising altitude
And being in Japan, the inflight catering was really good but the presentation was even nicer.
More inflight views
Noticed that it was snowing when we approached into CTS. After disembarkation, noticed the airport was really nice and was not too big, but not too small, however, we had to wait for a really long time for the bags to come out. It was a good flight by NH and I am looking forward to flying again with them in 3 days time.
Taxiing to the gate, logo jets aplenty!
Service:9/10
Food:8/10
Aircraft:7.5/10
Hotel Stay
Hotel Nikko JR Tower Sapporo
Room: Deluxe Twin
Room:6/10
Location:10/10
Service:7/10
Views from the room
24 December 2008
Sapporo (CTS) – Tokyo (HND)
All Nippon Airways NH64
Aircraft: B747-400 (Domestic Config)- POKEMON JET!
Registration: JA8956
1st Flight: 21 May 1992
ETD: 1330
ETA: 1505
ATD: 1340
ATA: 1500
Seat : 1A (Super Seat Premium / Business Class)
Flight Time: 1hr 35min
Pre Flight
After a really great 4 days in Sapporo and freezing my butt off in the process, its time to head back to Tokyo. We booked a maxi cab to take us to the airport as we had a ton of luggage due to all the winter clothing. After checking in, we walked around to check out the shops in the departure area before heading off to one of the many delightful restaurants to have our lunch. Personally, I had always wanted to fly onboard the Pokemon Jet, and today I really got my chance! I was just ecstatic when I saw her pulling up to our gate.
The rest of the time was spent being really restless in the lounge, eagerly waiting for my flight on the Pokemon Jet.
In Flight
Full load again in both J and Y. Was looking at the ANA fleet facts in their inflight magazine and noticed the B744D versions seat a total of 529 pax! Who needs the A380? But I bet NH and JL might cramp 800+ seats on their A380D if it ever eventuates to a confirmed order. I was busy snapping pics in the cabin,
but then the lead stewardess came up to me and politely told me that taking pictures and forbidden. Hrmmm strange, never ever happened to me on an Asian carrier before. Anyway, the flight itself was pretty ordinary but as usual the NH crew were fantastic.
Lunch
I have not flown on ANA international before, but after what I have experienced with them in domestic Japan, I will definitely have a go some time in the near future.
Service:8.5/10
Food:6.5/10
Aircraft:7.5/10
Hotel Stay
Hilton Tokyo
Room: 8/10 (King Deluxe)
Location: 7/10
Service: 8/10
30 December 2008
Tokyo (NRT) – Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
Malaysia Airlines MH71
Aircraft: B777-200ER
Registration: 9M-MRL
1st Flight: 1 March 2001
ETD: 1330
ETA: 2005
ATD: 1330
ATA: 2000
Seat : 2K (Golden Club Class / Business Class)
Flight Time: 7hr 50min
Pre Flight
After exhausting my credit cards, its now time to head back home. As usual, we took the Airport Limosine bus from the Tokyo Hilton hotel where we stayed to Narita Airport. It was practically free of any traffic so in exactly 1.5hrs, we were already waiting for the check in counters to open. Had lunch at one of the restaurants and paid a quick visit to the viewing terrace. After clearing immigration, we took the train to the satellite gates and spent more of our money at Duty Free before going and relaxing at the Qantas Club lounge which MH uses in NRT.
Sad to say the QF lounge although fresh from a renovation, looked really cold and boring.
Same baby that took me to NRT is taking me back to KUL
In Flight
Cabin Views
Menu
Pushback was on time, but there was a really long taxi to the active runway.
Lift Off
The flight was really bumpy over Tokyo bay, the Philippines, and on descend into KL. Other than that, the flight itself was ok and I also managed to get some sleep.
Meal time and some more cabin pics
Sunset and supper time
And not to mention, another great MH crew onboard.
Service:9/10
Food:9/10
Aircraft:9/10
Skyline of KL
31 December 2008
Kuala Lumpur (KUL) – Jakarta (CGK)
Malaysia Airlines MH721
Registration: 9M-MQE
1st Flight: 13 October 1993
Seat: 1F (Golden Club Class / Business Class)
ETD:1355
ETA:1455
Sorry no pics or too much details in this sector guys as I really fly this portion too often. Anyways hope you guys enjoyed this TR and sorry I was late in posting it as I was so filled up with work. Got 3 more TR’s to post and hopefully will be able to do it in the next week or so.
Cheers!
Upcoming TR’s
Jan 20 : MH J from Jakarta to Perth (Waiting to post)
Feb: Frankfurt & Lanzarote with TG in F and AB in Y (Waiting to post)
Feb 19: MH J from Jakarta to Perth (waiting to post)
Mar 15: MH J from Jakarta to Perth …again! (waiting to post)
April 20: CX in J to HKG with Dragonair in J to PVG
June 5: KLM in J from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur with KLM’s new B773ER
July: TG F and LH J to Frankfurt, Barcelona and Milan
Airbuseric From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 4015 posts, RR: 52 Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 18977 times:
Hi, interesting report. Thanks!
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): but then the lead stewardess came up to me and politely told me that taking pictures and forbidden. Hrmmm strange, never ever happened to me on an Asian carrier before.
Same experience late last year on a domestic NH flight (FUK-HND).
Flew MH once on NRT-KUL via BKI. Also B772, and I got upgraded to C. Old style seats though, I guess now the complete 772 fleet have the shell seats you're showing to us.
btw, I stayed in the Renaissance K.L., a great hotel with a fantastic breakfast buffet!
Regards,
Eric
"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going"
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 18722 times:
Quoting Airbuseric (Reply 1): Same experience late last year on a domestic NH flight (FUK-HND).
Yeah its strange, but on the previous sector the lead stewardess saw me happily clicking away on my camera and she smiled and didn't say anything.....hrmmmm
Quoting Airbuseric (Reply 1): I stayed in the Renaissance K.L., a great hotel with a fantastic breakfast buffet!
Yup! I used to stay there a lot, but the last couple of years I have been staying at lot at either the Westin KL or Le Meridien KL Sentral.
Triple7man From Thailand, joined May 2005, 679 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 18689 times:
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): but then the lead stewardess came up to me and politely told me that taking pictures and forbidden. Hrmmm strange, never ever happened to me on an Asian carrier before.
They are like that on the Japanese carriers...I don't know why. It's OK to take them once in flight.
Excellent TR with excellent pics. I've never flown on MH but I see their 777's all the time at NRT.
BA319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 8263 posts, RR: 56 Reply 4, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 18152 times:
Nice report & pictures, thanks for sharing.
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): I have not flown on ANA international before, but after what I have experienced with them in domestic Japan, I will definitely have a go some time in the near
future.
- Agreed, flew a domestic return and 2 intl flights to/from asia, excellent service, quite happy to use them again.
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 17435 times:
Quoting Triple7man (Reply 3): I've never flown on MH but I see their 777's all the time at NRT.
Actually MH's 777's are one of the most lightly configured amongst all the Asian carriers, meaning you get great leg rooms, even in Y. And I also must say that the 777's look good in MH colours
Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 4): flew a domestic return and 2 intl flights to/from asia, excellent service, quite happy to use them again.
Hi Mark, yeap, I really want to give them a go on an international leg and also try out their B7773ER. By the way, which part of the Uk are you based at? Geez I am way overdue to pay a visit to the UK been 7 years since I last been there.
Hey Markus...thanks for reading, and stay tuned, I have already finished up writing that ACE trip and have already loaded the pics on photobucket, so its just a matter of my linking the pics to the text.
Great, isn't it? I wish you'd find those facilites more often.
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): As you can imagine, its really cramped on this domestic B773 version, even in J, but it was bearable for the short hop to CTS.
I can't confirm that - I was actually surprised about the generous legroom in Y on NH's 773. Seating comfort was much better than what you get on most LCCs and American/European legacy carriers.
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): And being in Japan, the inflight catering was really good but the presentation was even nicer.
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): Personally, I had always wanted to fly onboard the Pokemon Jet, and today I really got my chance! I was just ecstatic when I saw her pulling up to our gate.
Congratulations for that. I also got a logojet during my last Japan visit, but JL's Tamagochi 744s weren't as nice as the Pokemon jets.
Quoting ThaiA345 (Thread starter): but then the lead stewardess came up to me and politely told me that taking pictures and forbidden. Hrmmm strange, never ever happened to me on an Asian carrier before.
Bad to hear. Quite odd that they didn't even allow to take pictures before pushback.
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 16730 times:
Quoting PlaneHunter (Reply 7):
Great, isn't it? I wish you'd find those facilites more often
Thats the great thing about most airports in Japan, they got really good and comfortable viewing terraces
Quoting PlaneHunter (Reply 7): I can't confirm that - I was actually surprised about the generous legroom in Y on NH's 773. Seating comfort was much better than what you get on most LCCs and American/European legacy carriers.
You might be right on that one, maybe I am spending too much time on MH's 777's with their too generous legroom! eheheheheh
Quoting PlaneHunter (Reply 7): Quite odd that they didn't even allow to take pictures before pushback.
Maybe I am coming to realise thats it is at the discretion of the cabin crew to enforce this rule or not.
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 9, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 16172 times:
Quoting PlaneHunter (Reply 7): I can't confirm that - I was actually surprised about the generous legroom in Y on NH's 773. Seating comfort was much better than what you get on most LCCs and American/European legacy carriers.
By the way, forgot to ask you, what kind of seat pitch does NH give on their domestic Y?
Ryanair!!! From Singapore, joined Mar 2002, 4652 posts, RR: 27 Reply 10, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 15962 times:
Nice... my parents were in Otaru not too long ago and they keep talking about it.Looks like Hokkaido is a nice place to visit.
With all the flak MH has been receiving of late, trust you to come up with something nice to say about them to cushion the blow. Indeed they need all the good news they can have now... And what do you know? They just bagged the best cabin crew award again with Skytrax!
Welcome to my starry one world alliance, a team in the sky!
The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 6081 posts, RR: 56 Reply 11, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 15913 times:
Very nice report!
That Malasian Satay is excellemt! The food looks very good also on NH.
Malaysia Airlines is very nice and hope to fly them again in the future.
The777Man
Need a Boeing 777 Firing Order....Further to fly....GA, T5, CI and LX 777s
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 13, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 15112 times:
Quoting The777Man (Reply 11): That Malasian Satay is excellemt! The food looks very good also on NH.
Hi 777Man!!! ...
Yup they are really good, even ex-Perth they keep the standard to almost that of ex-KUL. But sometimes I am getting a little sick of the satays ahahah been flying MH way too much
Thanks again for reading and nice to know you enjoyed my TR.
SASDC8 From Norway, joined Mar 2006, 662 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 15059 times:
Hi Herbert
Thanks for another interesting read and great that you are posting again
MH's in flight service, and especially their meal service, looks top notch. I am not a big fan of 2-3-2 configuration in Business, but with MH's Satay signature dish I would not mind it at all
I have now flown on OS and TG in Business on their 777's and my clear favorite is TG's "new" Business class on their 777ER with 2-2-2 configuration. Very spacious and nice looking cabin.
Japan is defiantly a country that I need to visit. I think it is fantastic that they still have superb viewing terraces at their airports, when the rest of the world closed them years ago.
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 15, posted (4 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 14938 times:
Quoting SASDC8 (Reply 14): TG's "new" Business class on their 777ER with 2-2-2 configuration. Very spacious and nice looking cabin.
Hey Stein...
Thanks for reading ..acutally you have to see TG's new J for the A380, its even better, you can see the pic of the chair in the civil aviation forum. Theres a post by Stargold on the hamburg aircraft interiors exhibition. go have a look, halfway down there are the seats selected by TG for the A380. Btw, TG just received the first of their new A333, HS-TEN.
Linglesou From Australia, joined Apr 2009, 122 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 14279 times:
What a fantastic set of pictures and a nice report - that ANA Haneda terminal looks amazing! You've made me want to go to Japan now! Hey how was the sushi on the NRT-KUL leg, it looks fairly decent but so did an omelette I had on MH a few years ago...I'm not going to go into that, painful memories
ThaiA345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 17, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 13938 times:
Quoting Linglesou (Reply 16): Hey how was the sushi on the NRT-KUL leg
Thanks for reading. The sushi was actually really fantastic. Actually one thing I love about flying out of NRT is that the catering is really good, does not matter whether you are flying MH, SQ or TG, catering is always good, especially if you order the Japanese food option.
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