BA F (747-400) or AA F (777/300ER) or AA F (777-200/300) Which is better?

[gogo419]

Hi all,

Hoping some of you can give me some help!?

Looking at booking a classic award LHR-DFW (January 2016). QF is giving me three options in F, BA on 747-400 or AA on 777/300ER or AA on 777-200/300.

Which flight would you recommend? (Which has best seat etc.. or best probability of getting a plane with new fit out? If its currently hit and miss?)

cheers gogo

 

[straitman]

Hi all,

Hoping some of you can give me some help!?

Looking at booking a classic award LHR-DFW (January 2016). QF is giving me three options in F, BA on 747-400 or AA on 777/300ER or AA on 777-200/300.

Which flight would you recommend? (Which has best seat etc.. or best probability of getting a plane with new fit out? If its currently hit and miss?)

cheers gogo

BA 744 with the new fitout is great. We flew it recently from BOS-LHR.

I cannot really comment on the others other than saying I would always pick the B744 over the B777 but that is just a personal thing.

 

[Sprucegoose]

From a service perspective BA is more of an F airline than AA. However some crews will always surprise.

 

[knasty]

Aa 777-300er will be better than other aa offerings.

 

[Mattg]

Imho:

Ba 747 > aa 777-300er > aa 777-200/300

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi all,

Hoping some of you can give me some help!?

Looking at booking a classic award LHR-DFW (January 2016). QF is giving me three options in F, BA on 747-400 or AA on 777/300ER or AA on 777-200/300.

Which flight would you recommend? (Which has best seat etc.. or best probability of getting a plane with new fit out? If its currently hit and miss?)

cheers gogo

This is another example of swings-and-roundabouts.

Both BA and AA have positives and negatives. Neither are perfect and because of that, I would be happy to choose either carrier.

BA might win on the food in terms of quality, but they have been known to run out of first and even second preferences. Because AA essentially caters F the same as J, you're pretty much going to always get what you want to eat on AA.

Some say the BA F seat is really a business class seat... and the F cabin is somewhat cramped. The AA cabin on the other hand is spacious and the seat is comfortable.

AA is supposed to be refurbishing their 772... not sure of the completion date for that... there will no longer be a First cabin. So to save trouble down the track I'd probably avoid that aircraft.

 

[TheRealTMA]

The refurbished BA F on 747 or 777 is quite good. They just have an annoying habit of overbooking so 'less privileged' non BA customers get dumped down to steerage in J. I was not impressed since it was a paid ticket.

 

[Danger]

Absolutely definitely not the non-refurbished F on AA's 772s. An appalling product that these days wouldn't even pass as Business on any half-decent airline.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Absolutely definitely not the non-refurbished F on AA's 772s. An appalling product that these days wouldn't even pass as Business on any half-decent airline.

oh! I actually really like the 772 F. Big, wide and spacious seats. And they rotate to look straight out the window if that takes your fancy (well, it occupies 5 minutes of time ) A bit old skool perhaps, but still comfortable!