I have been looking at what flights are available using FF UA miles from BKK to either DCA or IAD for next year. It seems that the flights operated by ANA All Nippon Airways have seats fairly often. They seem to offer Boeing 767-300 & Boeing 777-200. I flew on ANA from HCMC to Narita last year and thought their biz class seats awful -- not only old style recliner seats and not lie flat, but just uncomfortable. Don't know the plane we flew on though. Looking at Seat Guru it doesn't show either of these planes (Boeing 767-300 & Boeing 777-200) with lie flat seats. Some have 170 degree angle. Anyone flown with those seats? Are they comfortable? And BTW the service on our biz class ANA flight last year was nothing special.
Seats in Biz Class on flights Operated by ANA All Nippon Airways
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Like many Asian airlines, ANA has a "regional business class" product which is used on intra-Asia flights but not longhaul. So on the Vietnam - Japan run you undoubtedly had those seats, while on any transpacific flights you'll get the longhaul product.
Last year ANA announced a roll-out of a new regional business product but no idea what the schedule is. Also, fleet deployment on longhaul routes is probably going to be pretty chaotic pending resolution of the 787 battery stramash - ANA is a big user of those planes on longhaul routes.
http://www.ana.co.jp/int/svc/w_en/c/seat/
We flew ANA biz class NRT-SFO in March 2011. The seats were indeed "angled lie flat". They were fine enough while awake since you can control the leg and back portion, but I do not like the angled lie-flat for sleeping -- I find that you simply slide. Not nearly as good as United lie-flat, but not nearly as "ordinary" as Asiana "recliner" seats.
Asiana has a lie-flat seat called Quadra Smartium that looks good. I had outstanding service in F on Asiana.
Here is an article that describes the route availability: http://airlineroute.net/2012/10/01/oz-77l-w12/
And
http://www.flatseats.com/Product/news_asiana070610.htm