Quote Originally Posted by Trefor View Post
Trip report.

The flight left LHR an hour late, but the incoming flight was also late and the weather was very wet and windy so I expected this.

We had exit seats (paid for), but in general the seats/cabin were OK. Not great, not bad. A bit more seat width would have been nice (I'm not fat). Economy class was full, business class was empty except for a few seats which people paid for upgrades to. Strange that PAL only had 5 business seats for sale at departure.

I didn't eat anything or pay any attention to the food service as i slept for a big chunk of the flight, but Rose tells me the food was 'OK but it wasn't hot'. 5:30 departure, they served the first meal around 7:30, then another big meal at midnight and turned all the lights on waking everyone, why? Breakfast came around 2hrs before landing.

The cabin crew were average, certainly not Virgin/Cathay/Singapore service. I would compare them to Emirates for personal attention/service.

So, a good way to save a few hours on the LHR-MNL route, but nothing exceptionally good or bad to say.

Flight time was 13hrs 40mins outbound.


The flight time was definitely outstanding. .beats doing it to hk then again to Manila. Marvelous. ..For what it's worth I'll throw you a rep. ..cheers