Last July Asiana unveiled a new, cutting edge first class product, featuring fully enclosed suites and the largest personal TVs in the sky. The 777-200ER aircraft featuring this product initially operated the Chicago to Seoul Incheon route, though Asiana has announced that they’ll also be starting three cabin service with their new product to New York JFK starting July 22, 2013. Asiana has always had amazing in-flight service and food (you can read my trip reports on their service here and here), so getting their new hard product to another destination is a huge win, in my opinion.

Best of all they have a ton of first class award space on the route, so snagging an award ticket shouldn’t be too tough. Conversely I’ve found it nearly impossible to find first class award availability on their Chicago route as of late.

Definitely an exciting change for those with Star Alliance miles!

Update: It looks like they’ll also be pulling the product from the Chicago route as of July 22, 2013, so this is merely a route change for the aircraft.

Posted on March 19th, 2013 by lucky
Filed under: Asiana | 29 Comments »

  1. March 19th, 2013 at 7:32 pm

    UA-NYC said,

    Funny, today I just picked up OZ F ICN-ORD for June in case my COdbaUA UG from HKG doesn’t clear.

  2. March 19th, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    Kai said,

    OZ doesn’t have any 777-300ERs. They’re coded 77W but are actually 772s with the new products.

    They’re actually yanking the “77W” from ORD in favour of JFK.

  3. March 19th, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    Gene said,

    @Kai — Asiana does operate 777-300ER. I am looking at my reservation right now…

  4. March 19th, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    Gene said,

    @Kai — which now shows business 777-200 for ORD-ICN. !@#$%^&^!

  5. March 19th, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    The Miles Professor said,

    This is great. I am likely to fly Asiana if I extend my trip to Asia this fall. Excellent! Now just finding the first class award availability… :)

  6. March 19th, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    Thomas said,

    Asiana does not operate 777-300ER at all, all their 777s are -200(ER). I found the information on their website. Maybe the “77W” denotes the particular configuration with first class.

  7. March 19th, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    Andy said,

    @Gene – Asiana doesn’t fly 777-300er’s. It’s miscoded by UA.

  8. March 19th, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    Gene said,

    @Andy — Mine is coded by US Airways

  9. March 19th, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    Gene said,

    Anyone have some good suggestions for a 4-5 day Labor Day trip from SFO now that my Asiana F trip via ORD is ruined? I have 10 million miles spread across a dozen airlines, but I don’t do coach or slanted business.

  10. March 19th, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    Jessica said,

    It’s miscoded by Asiana directly …. They use 77L and 77W to describe new 2-class and 3-class planes – both referring to plain old 777-200ER

    all other partners misinterpret it

  11. March 19th, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Aaron D said,

    New F class is being pulled from ORD. See Matt’s confirmation comment on Point Me to the Plane earlier today – http://boardingarea.com/blogs/pointmetotheplane/2013/03/19/asiana-first-suite-class-jfk-great-award-availability/

  12. March 19th, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    David said,

    Looks like OZ is pulling the new First class product from ORD-ICN starting July 22nd.

  13. March 20th, 2013 at 12:25 am

    lucky said,

    @ Kai — I’m an idiot, you’re absolutely right. Shouldn’t have written the post after being up for over 40 hours.

    @ Aaron D — Thanks for the confirmation. That’s sad…

  14. March 20th, 2013 at 12:38 am

    Justin said,

    Really glad I didn’t book this for next Jan–was thinking of doing it ex-ORD!

    Do they now (or will they soon) have 2 aircraft with the product? My understanding as to why they were running it to ORD instead of JFK or another “premium” market was they only had one aircraft outfitted with the suites and didn’t want to serve a premium market with an inconsistent product…

  15. March 20th, 2013 at 12:49 am

    lucky said,

    @ Justin — Correct, I believe they’re going to have two, which is why they’ll be operating it to JFK finally.

  16. March 20th, 2013 at 12:50 am

    lucky said,

    @ Gene — I do, but probably not one you haven’t taken yet!

  17. March 20th, 2013 at 7:34 am

    Dave K. said,

    I flew this from ORD a couple weeks ago and it was fantastic. Love that it is coming to JFK now.

  18. March 20th, 2013 at 7:44 am

    Siobhan said,

    aaah nooooo this means that my business class flight from ICN to ORD in September is definitely not going to have the new hard product!? So sad.

  19. March 20th, 2013 at 10:52 am

    Eric said,

    Hi Ben, great timing! I am sitting in 1A on OZ235 ORD-ICN right now! So far it’s quite comfortable and spacious!

  20. March 20th, 2013 at 11:17 am

    lucky said,

    @ Siobhan — Nothing is guaranteed, though it is very likely to be the old product.

    @ Eric — Enjoy your flight!

  21. March 20th, 2013 at 11:34 am

    David said,

    I’m booked on the ORD-ICN flight on 7/10, however, when I went over to OZ website to get my seat, there were no other open seats than the one I was automatically assigned (a middle seat). Is it really popular or is OZ blocking the seats?

  22. March 20th, 2013 at 11:47 am

    lucky said,

    @ David — Asiana is notorious for blocking seats, as they seem to block a majority of their premium cabin seats for advance assignment. I’m willing to bet they’re almost all available, but just can’t be assigned till check-in.

  23. March 20th, 2013 at 1:17 pm

    dan ray said,

    We are booked in first on ord-icn on July 22 with united award. I’m not clear if this changing to the old product that very day? My United reservation still says First A – 777-300ER.

  24. March 20th, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    lucky said,

    @ dan ray — They haven’t updated the GDS yet, but yes, I suspect your flight will be downgraded unfortunately.

  25. March 20th, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    dan ray said,

    My reservation is still saying the same first class but searching for award space that is open July 23 (one day later) is showing two-class 777-200.

  26. April 8th, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    Jaso said,

    @dan ray
    As posted REPEATEDLY in the earlier posts, Asiana does NOT fly 777-300ERs. It’s a 777-200.

  27. April 12th, 2013 at 8:42 pm

    Michael said,

    I am so excited they just pulled the OZ from ORD considering it is only a 13.5 hr flight and I am traveling with my whole family via ORD. Booked two months ago. Love the slanted for that long. That is a fail on Asiana’s part.

  28. May 7th, 2013 at 12:56 am

    E said,

    Do you know when/if the lax route will feature this?

  29. May 7th, 2013 at 11:04 am

    lucky said,

    @ E — The 777 operating the LAX route is a two cabin aircraft without first class, so there are no plans to have it on the route. The 747 operating the route features the old first class, and they don’t plan on reconfiguring the 747s.

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