Hong Kong Airport

Arrived at the Hong Kong airport and had the good fortune after getting off the plane of being right next to a Cathay lounge. One of the best things to do after a long flight is to take a shower. Anyway, back to the seat experience. In the premium section of the plane there are only two seats with unhindered leg room. I was in seat 31C. The seat immediately to my left would be 31A or B. These are the only two with long leg room. All of the Premium seats are wider with a few extra inches of leg room. The food service is better and the video monitors are larger. That is it. There is no other differences than that. In the future I will continue to book the coach seating, exit row aisle.

Heading For Chengdu

I haven't left New York yet but will be shortly - heading to Chengdu. After I leave Hong Kong I won't be able to access this Blogger account so will instead post to the On the Road account. Last time I had some problems posting images to the account largely due to the fact I couldn't figure it out using an Ipad. I will try and post more images with the laptop. Anyway, here is the Url - http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Jeff-on-the-Road/

A few weeks ago when heading to Vancouver on Cathay they bumped me to the new Premium Class. I didn't like it. They gave me an aisle seat but in a regular row. Yes there was more leg room than usual, but, that is not the issue with tall people. It is knee space. There wasn't much. Today Cathay has upgraded me again to Premium. I declined, but they talked me into trying the front row aisle seat which they say has even more leg room without the knee space issue. The problem with tall people and flying is often the knees press against the back of the chair in front. After awhile this becomes excrutiatingly painful. In the front row of Premium there is only more leg room and then a barrier separating you from Business. I agreed to try it. We shall see. The flight to Hong Kong is a little long to be experimenting with new untried seats but there you have it - a new adventure in sitting. The food is much better in Premium based on my first experience some weeks ago. I was actually surprised by that. It was even comparable to Business Class which is very goood on Cathay.

More later......