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Greetings lynn,

Sounds like the making of a fine holiday. I can personally and highly vouch for Singapore Airlines' all business class, 'flatbed', non-stop service, EWR-SIN (and return). I've flown those sectors a few times for work and they are most efficient and memorable. Once arriving in Singapore, it's a relatively short flight to BKK. More info to be found via the ever-changing singaporeair.com/

And, beginning 16 January 2012, SQ is launching A380 service ex-JFK. I've flown SQ's A380s in business class on SIN-HKG and SIN-NRT sectors for meetings and it's most serene. Again, singaporeair is your friend.

However you fly, hope you have joyous times, perhaps in our sweet home of Singapore -- and BKK, of course.

macintosh (robert)


... Singapore Girl, You're a Great Way to Fly ...

Just a note on the Singapore front - you can buy a round-the-world business class ticket ex-NYC on Singapore (who fly across the Atlantic to Frankfurt) for $5300 plus various taxes and surcharges (including big surcharges to use the SIN-EWR or SIN-LAX services, although alternatives are available.) You could stop in Frankfurt, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, and/or Tokyo as you do the "loop." Might be price-competitive to "simple" round trips using more conventional tickets.

Where do you find the $5300 RTW fare? Singapores site wasn't working when I visited it, but the Star Alliance site calculated the price as nearly twice that.

The Star Alliance and Singapore websites will try to sell you a Star RTW - which allows use of any Star carriers. But Singapore also has its own RTW - using just SQ metal, that you need to book through a TA or through Singapore itself, code CEZSQ for business or FEZSQ for first class (around $7000.) Here's a blog with some good pics and text covering an F-class FEZSQ trip from earlier this year: http://ptn-onboard.blogspot.com/2011/04/singapore-airlines-first-class-new-york.html

Continental has flat beds on Newark (EWR) - Delhi (DEL) non-stop. Fast and simple way to get there.

Gardyloo, thanks for the information. My wife's dream of visiting Australia just became more viable.

Gardyloo, thanks for the information. My wife's dream of visiting Australia just became more viable.

Unfortunately the Singapore-only RTW fare has a maximum mileage allowance that doesn't permit travel to either South Africa nor Australia. However you could get as close as, say, Bali, from which hops to Oz aren't terribly expensive or time-consuming.

I really like United's new flat-bed seats in Biz. The problem is that not all of their planes have been converted yet. In particular, many 777s have not yet been converted. I fly to Bangkok annually from Seattle. The SEA-NRT flight (a 777) has never yet had flat-beds, the NRT-BKK has flat beds when they use a 747 (usually in high season, but not this year), no flat beds in the 777 on that route.

However, if I were willing to fly to SFO first, then to NRT, that flight has flat beds. Some of the planes used on the ORD-NRT flight have flat beds.

Eventually, all of the planes on United's trans-oceanic routes should be converted.