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Old May 10th 2012, 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by Lejamez
Hey guys,

After a bit of advice - Anyone on here used or heard anything about Korean Airlines? We're probably going to be stopping in Korea visiting family on route to Auckland and via the Emirates website we got a price of around £1600 for 2 adults and 2 children - Emirates themselves are around £3000. I'm always wary of an offer to good to be true so any info would be greatly appreciated - this flight has a stop over of around 14hrs at dubai however so that could be the catch


Any info or advice would be greatly appreciated.


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Best advice DONT if you can avoid it, when we visited nz went Emirates (excellent, )went to Oz (Malaysian excellent) when we emmigrated did it budget (Korean awful) seats v uncomfortable, food diabolical, online entertainment basic. whereas with others seats comfy (be selective on your planaes if you can) food was v good for adventurous or not, onboard entertainment excellent, depends on kids ages our are teenagers but provide special packs for younger children and special meals and hostesses v attentive. think carefully , appreciate budget is important but if the difference isnt much go for emirates or malaysian and heard singapore are great but more expensive
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Best advice DONT if you can avoid it, when we visited nz went Emirates (excellent, )went to Oz (Malaysian excellent) when we emmigrated did it budget (Korean awful) seats v uncomfortable, food diabolical, online entertainment basic. whereas with others seats comfy (be selective on your planaes if you can) food was v good for adventurous or not, onboard entertainment excellent, depends on kids ages our are teenagers but provide special packs for younger children and special meals and hostesses v attentive. think carefully , appreciate budget is important but if the difference isnt much go for emirates or malaysian and heard singapore are great but more expensive
Thats NOT true. unless you go for North Korean airline or something.

I find Malaysian airline food diabolical - horrible curry. breaky lunch dinner all curry stuff - yuck!
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I find Malaysian airline food diabolical - horrible curry. breaky lunch dinner all curry stuff - yuck!
Curry for Breakfast/dinner/supper yum yum - look out bum - here it come
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Korean Airlines are fine- flown with them before, will do again. Bonus if you fly AKL-LHR is some of the flights have a free layover night in a hotel.
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flew korean before,had an overnight stopover,and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the flights. some people seem to be so picky....
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Often I think it is just what happens on the day. Full flights and grumpy flight crew have a huge impact on your overall flight enjoyment. I was really looking forward to a flight from LHR to the USA with virgin,had heard really good things about them. It was a terrible flight, full, stressed crew and the food was virtually inedible. On the way here our leg with Qantas, crap. BA leg, very good.
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Originally Posted by karron
flew korean before,had an overnight stopover,and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the flights. some people seem to be so picky....
Agree I've flown with Virgin, Quantas and Air New Zealand.

In my experience had no problem maybe because I smile
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Often I think it is just what happens on the day. Full flights and grumpy flight crew have a huge impact on your overall flight enjoyment. I was really looking forward to a flight from LHR to the USA with virgin,had heard really good things about them. It was a terrible flight, full, stressed crew and the food was virtually inedible. On the way here our leg with Qantas, crap. BA leg, very good.
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So true.

I used to love going with virgin to LA put they suddenly went really bad and it was down to cost cutting the flight attendants said. Their stop over was at a different, cheaper, place and their lay over hours cut as well, so on the outward journey they were not looking forward to the lay over at all - and it showed.

Having said that I have never had a poor flight with Singapore Airlines - they have always been the most helpful and attentive
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Like all the comments.....looks like I might give Korean a try :-)
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Like all the comments.....looks like I might give Korean a try :-)
When are you planning to fly?
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Originally Posted by karron
some people seem to be so picky....
I think they're entitled to be, when faced with paying over $2000 for 24 hours of mind and bum numbing torture.

I've a pretty stong constitution but don't have much of a stomach for a breakfast of some stinking fish curry, with a side of extra turbulence.
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I think they're entitled to be, when faced with paying over $2000 for 24 hours of mind and bum numbing torture.

I've a pretty stong constitution but don't have much of a stomach for a breakfast of some stinking fish curry, with a side of extra turbulence.
I must admit I get a wee bit irked when folk make out flying is the worst thing ever. When I catch myself starting to think like that I remind myself what a ridiculously wealthy privilege it is to fly around the world- couldn't be much less like torture really.
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I must admit I get a wee bit irked when folk make out flying is the worst thing ever. When I catch myself starting to think like that I remind myself what a ridiculously wealthy privilege it is to fly around the world- couldn't be much less like torture really.
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