Would you choose Singapore Airlines Business Class or Air India First Class?

[Human]

I'm looking at flying from Melbourne to Delhi early next year using KrisFlyer points.

On the day I want to fly, there's Singapore Airlines availability in Business Class for 100,000 KrisFlyer points. There's also Air India availability in First Class for 142,500 points.

The AI flight is direct; the SQ flight is via SIN.

The AI flight arrives at 3am, which is possibly no big deal as I'd then want to catch a 6:20am flight to Nagpur.

Which would you choose?

Same question for the return flight -- should the new AI First lounge in Delhi make me lean towards AI First for the return trip?

(SQ First Class is also available, but at the higher "Advantage" rate of about 250,000 points).

 

[Aussie_flyer]

SQ every day in business. Won't step foot on Air India

 

[Human]

SQ every day in business. Won't step foot on Air India

Noted; thanks for your reply. Are you able to give me your reasoning/s?

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Noted; thanks for your reply. Are you able to give me your reasoning/s?

Safety, service, maintenance, cabin/seat quality.

 

[Scarlett]

I’d try AI, but that’s because I’d almost always default to trying something new rather than the known.

The one hesitation would be if the F flight is fully overnight then will you actually get much of an F experience or just be asleep for six hours of it?

 

[Aussie_flyer]

I’d try AI, but that’s because I’d almost always default to trying something new rather than the known.

The one hesitation would be if the F flight is fully overnight then will you actually get much of an F experience or just be asleep for six hours of it?

There's no need, check the reviews

 

[Scarlett]

There's no need, check the reviews

Thank you for visiting my intentions.
I’m aware of reviews of AI and my comment stands.

 

[Human]

The one hesitation would be if the F flight is fully overnight then will you actually get much of an F experience or just be asleep for six hours of it?

I suppose my thinking is that if I flew AI it would be to take advantage of the direct flight rather than the 1-stop flight. And the timing would be potentially a little better as well.

And that being the case, I'd be trying to avoid their 2-3-2 Business Class configuration -- and AI First Class costs only 20,000 points more than AI Business. That seems a decent price to pay to have a lot more space and privacy, regardless of the service.

And, on the return flight, that Lounge in DEL looks really nice: I'd eat a large meal in the Lounge and go easy on the not-quite-as-good inflight food.

 

[offshore171]

Definitely SQ

 

[MELso]

As well as non-stop flying, I guess the plane you get would be important too. The ex-EY planes with 8 F seats would be fine. The unrenovated AI planes... not so much...