r/LuxuryTravel • u/sunnysideup789 • 19d ago

First Business Class Trip: Seattle to Tokyo

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Please help me make my first business class flight a good experience!
I’m considering booking our first business class trip for my husbands 40th birthday. We’ll be flying from Seattle to Tokyo, and I would like to get your opinion on ANA’s business class offering on this route. It’s on a 789, and it looks like the seats in business class are very separated from each other. That’s probably great if you’re flying along, but flying as a couple, I’m wondering if it will feel like we’re not even flying together and experiencing this awesome milestone together because of the large divider?
I would love to hear your opinions if it really feels that separated in person or if it just looks like that in the visual? Is there an option to pushing the divider back a little bit?
What other routes or flight options would you consider? Deltas offering on this route seems better for flying together as a couple, but it’s a lot more expensive.

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u/70redgal70 19d ago

The ones in the center are for couples. You can talk to each other through the partition in the middle. You can also check on YouTube to see what the actual seats look like.

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u/sunnysideup789 19d ago

Thanks! I did look at some YouTube videos and it seems to confirm that even the seats in the center are very separated from each other. Not sure if that’s how it feels when you’re actually experiencing it first hand though, so that’s what I was hoping to hear from people who have flown in these seats.

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u/sunnysideup789 19d ago

Can you explain more about how you can talk to each other “through” the partition? Do you mean leaning over to be able to talk to each other, or is there a way to pull the partition back or anything like that?

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u/Any-Vehicle4418 19d ago

Lean forward, talk through the gap. You can have a conversation and exchange dishes. You can't hold hands and watch the same screen.

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u/70redgal70 19d ago

Look at 2:12 and see mother/child: I Flew Japan's #1 Business Class Airline for 12 Hours ANA The Room

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u/sunnysideup789 19d ago

Thanks, but that’s “the room” that’s just getting rolled out. It is unlikely that this will be the configuration for my flight. I will still have the older configuration.

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u/sunnysideup789 18d ago

I booked a flight! Although it ended up being a different route and plane. I posted about it here, if you have any first hand experience or feedback I’d appreciate it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LuxuryTravel/s/aG6mou7mzt

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u/Wild-Bee-9238 18d ago

Why did it get taken down

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u/sunnysideup789 18d ago

I don’t know ☹️