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- So last time I flew Delta to Asia was in June of 2011.
It was the day I quit my job at Morgan Stanley to pursue
doing The Points Guy full time.
I actually left my cubicle in Times Square and went
and flew and they had recently started flying
to Haneida so I flew a 777 to Haneida,
and I was like you know this TPG thing I can't
believe this is my life right now.
Look at this beautiful plane!
It's like my first day of school!
Wow!
It smells like new airplane!
So 8C I like because it's inside,
so you're not as close to the aisle.
Wow, look at this cabin!
I am currently in plane geek heaven
with the first ever commercial flight of the brand new
Delta A350 and the new plane smell is glorious.
Excited to fly to Tokyo, 14 hours,
I'll probably ask them to keep going around
because I'm loving this already
and we haven't even left Detroit.
Are we gonna have a smooth ride to Tokyo today?
- Pretty smooth, little bumps out of here probably.
- And flight time?
- About 12:30, I guess 12:49.
- Maybe I'll be a captain one day,
no I much prefer it back here.
As always Delta, their amenity kits,
the Tumi was great, you can actually get your Tumi
amenity kit engraved if you go into a Tumi store.
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The seat itself is spacious so in full recline
I'm 6'7, it was 6'6 so about an inch my head was up,
which for me is no problem because I'm a side sleeper
and even at a small elevation with the pillows,
I was perfectly fine, very comfortable, I love the privacy.
I like these feature lights they're kinda cool.
Wow, get outta here!
- And what beverage can I start you out with?
- I'll just do a glass of champagne please,
and a sparkling water with lemon.
- I have here your burger and your Caesar salad.
- I'll do the pretzel please, yeah that's good thank you.
So far so good, I'm a huge Caesar salad guy,
hard to mess it up, butternut squash soup was really good
with a little zesty zing to it.
And even though it doesn't look fancy,
the duck was delicious.
And you never go wrong with a pretzel roll
so time will tell on the main dish, but so far so good.
The moment of truth.
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Konichiwa, we're in Tokyo, flight was overall pretty good,
but there were definitely some positives and negatives.
So let's just start off, oh you wanna hear the bad
parts first, okay fine I'll just dig right in.
First off the WIFI was terrible.
It went out a couple of times and then about
halfway through the flight it didn't work at all.
Now Gogo in general is pretty bad
although I've been on Gogo flights
on Delta's newer planes internationally where I can
actually stream things, not on this flight.
I couldn't even upload a simple video.
So I don't know if it was because they gave it
to everyone for free on the flight and it crashed,
but not impressed.
The second thing is food, I did not like
the food on the plane.
They unfortunately ran out of Japanese meals
by the time they go to me, so here's a tip,
if you want a Japanese meal you can order in advance.
At no point in the booking process was I aware of this,
so FYI you can do that apparently.
The seats overall are pretty chic looking,
but functionally there's no storage and on either side
of your seat there's a big hole.
So my Bose headphones fell into the abyss below the seat.
So I was fishing things out the entire time,
my phone, I actually put my phone in to see what was
down there and it got sucked in, so be careful.
And then the lavatory situation, there's two very small
lavatories in the front, they were also a little wonky,
the one light wouldn't go on in the one lavatory.
And they were tight so definitely in the galley
and the lavatories they made as small as possible
which kind of creates for tight situations, alright.
Now the things that I like, I think the overall design
of the cabin's really sleek, you know,
in the middle of the night waking up and it's all
the mood lighting and I do like the cathedral ceilings,
as they call it, where there's no overhead bins
in the middle so it's a big open cabin,
which I really did like, no issues with storage.
The wine menu was decent and they had La Croix,
and as a millennial I was freaking out.
I didn't realize they had La Croix until we were an
hour out and I had three cans.
I, for some reason watched Marley and Me on the plane
and was sobbing like a lunatic and I felt very
safe to cry my eyes out in my suite.
Speaking of in flight entertainment,
the screen's really big, really really big,
although it's a little weird how you recline,
you're very close to the screen,
unlike other seats where you're kind of
far away from the in flight screen,
you're very up close and personal with that screen,
I enjoyed that but some people may not like just how close,
it's much closer than on other planes.
So I think Delta should be proud of this product,
some service things that you know
they could improve upon, the food,
getting better champagne, but overall
it's a winning product and I slept for
three and a half hours and now I'm ready to go
out in Tokyo so overall TPG approved.