Which Business Class Service To Mumbai?

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:01

Im fed up with flying BA to Mumbai, crappy old 777's with out of date entertainment system and cack food.. They wont put the new 777-300 o this route till next year.

I have 2 options

Jet Airways or Kingfisher

Any recommendations on based on Business Class o these airlines

[TW]Fox · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:06

The 777 is one of the most modern planes flown by any airline, how can you call them crappy and old?

Greenlizard0 · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:07

I think he means the on flight entertainment's not that good and the food is rubbish. The airline's fault not really the 777's.

Dr House · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:12

Kingfisher is good but emirates have some really good deals on business class tickets at the moment.

I was quoted 2.5k for
LON to AMD,
Sydney to Dubai
Dubai to London
Considering economy is 1000 it’s not bad at all.

TS7 · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:15

+ 1 for Emirates.

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:19

[TW]Fox;17186838 said:
The 777 is one of the most modern planes flown by any airline, how can you call them crappy and old?

Yeah they are crappy and old and looking very worn out inside. A fair amount of the BA 777 fleet is nearly 11 years old now and they look it inside.

The 777-300's 7 of them have been purchased to help replace this aging fleet.

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 14:20

Dr House said:
Kingfisher is good but emirates have some really good deals on business class tickets at the moment.

I was quoted 2.5k for
LON to AMD,
Sydney to Dubai
Dubai to London
Considering economy is 1000 it’s not bad at all.

Thats great, but i want to go to Mumbai

DampCat · 18 Aug 2010 at 15:48

ShaggyRS6 said:
Thats great, but i want to go to Mumbai

Get your own bloody quotes then, lazy git.

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 15:53

I dont want a quote, i'm not interested in cost. I want to know about the service between Jet or Kingfisher

sven256 · 18 Aug 2010 at 15:59

http://www.airlinemeals.net/index.php is always handy to find out what the meal quality is like.

Dandle · 18 Aug 2010 at 16:24

ShaggyRS6 said:
Yeah they are crappy and old and looking very worn out inside. A fair amount of the BA 777 fleet is nearly 11 years old now and they look it inside.

The 777-300's 7 of them have been purchased to help replace this aging fleet.

The stretch business class seat is less than three years old and the cabins were refreshed when the new product was fitted.

Dr House · 18 Aug 2010 at 16:32

ShaggyRS6 said:
Thats great, but i want to go to Mumbai

It was just to give you an idea as AMD is only around 200 miles from Mumbai.

So as I said in my first post in my opinion Kingfisher is better then Jet however emirates is better then both of them.

FYI Lon - Bom - Lon is only around 1.5k with emirates

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 16:36

I know the seats are that old, but you need to travel in them. Its awful.

Dandle · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:12

ShaggyRS6 said:
I know the seats are that old, but you need to travel in them. Its awful.

I thought they were pretty comfortable and the IFE although basic only misses the ipod integration really. The IFE is due to be replaced with the Thales system over the next few years.

sanaxe1 · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:16

ShaggyRS6 said:
Im fed up with flying BA to Mumbai, crappy old 777's with out of date entertainment system and cack food.. They wont put the new 777-300 o this route till next year.

I have 2 options

Jet Airways or Kingfisher

Any recommendations on based on Business Class o these airlines

Kingfisher is the better of the two :

Kingfisher : http://www.airlinequality.com/Airlines/IT.htm
Jet Airways : http://www.airlinequality.com/Airlines/9W.htm

[TW]Fox · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:29

ShaggyRS6 said:
I know the seats are that old, but you need to travel in them. Its awful.

Yea, I'm sure BA Business Class really is 'awful'. I doubt its awful enough to offend somebody who asks OcUK for business class travel advice, at least.

ShaggyRS6 · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:35

I'm sorry TW Fox I really don't understand what your getting at.

Dandle, the thing that annoys me most at a regular business traveller about the IFE especially going west is that i want to be able to pause the movie, sleep, eat or maybe walk around then come back to it, not have to wait 2 hours for the film to start again.

[TW]Fox · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:40

ShaggyRS6 said:
I'm sorry TW Fox I really don't understand what your getting at.

You are trying really hard to come across as some sort of business class travelling airline connoisseur for whom the standard offered in BA Business Class (A standard far above that 90% of this forum has ever experienced) simply isn't good enough for.

This would have worked really well had you not been posting on an overclocking forum saying that BA is 'crappy'. You've now failed to pull off the whole 'LOOK AT ME, I AM A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN' thing.

Ask on Flyertalk, but they wont give you any coolpoints for travelling Business.

Disco Boy · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:48

[TW]Fox;17188364 said:
Ask on Flyertalk, but they wont give you any coolpoints for travelling Business.

And would laugh at him even more for mis-use of "your"

Sudden · 18 Aug 2010 at 17:51

I've flown business class on jet airways to delhi and can't fault the service at all. Good food, good movie selection on a swivel 15" screen

and an average tv show selection. Nice whiskey's and drinks available too.

Was watching a movie on there and the airhostess came up and asked me if I wanted popcorn with the movie

In another instance I asked for some iced tea. They didn't have any, but she offered to make me some (though she wanted to give me hot tea cooled down

(without flavourings etc). I didn't take her up on in it and instead asked for a whiskey

Though I was very happy with the fact she did at least try.

+ the seats allow you to almost lie down completely and have a nice (albeit tiny) massage function.

Can't compare it to kingfisher as I haven't flown with them, but Jet haven't given me any reason to around looking for other options. I would usually pick Jet where I can because they have better arrival and departure times than BA and Air India.