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FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« on: August 22, 2020, 05:14:23 PM »
It's apparently not yet 100% official and it's not yet possible to book, but starting Jan 15, one of Delta's 2 daily flights (the night flights) will be operated by the A330-900neo! Finally DL will be competing on the premium product on this route, and the way it looks now, they will be keeping their 2 daily flights year round!
So despite Corona, they seem to have to decided to take on United and AA full force (and LY, if we ever get to see them again....). I assume AA will follow with an aircraft with a decent J and PE product if they want to survive in this competition.

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2020, 11:48:42 PM »
I wasn't all that impressed with the A359 D1 suite and the A339 D1 suite is even narrower...
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/trip-notes-48-hours-amsterdam-via-delta-a350-suites/
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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2020, 01:50:48 AM »
I wasn't all that impressed with the A359 D1 suite and the A339 D1 suite is even narrower...
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/trip-notes-48-hours-amsterdam-via-delta-a350-suites/
It's still impressive that they're upping their game on the TLV route. 2 daily flights, PE service, and their newest j product.
Is the new suites worse than the current seat they have on the TLV route?

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2020, 02:00:07 AM »
Currently 84K + $5.60 on that 1/15 flight for Premium Select.

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2020, 02:26:24 AM »
Currently 84K + $5.60 on that 1/15 flight for Premium Select.
It happens to be Friday night, though.

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2020, 02:29:23 AM »
It happens to be Friday night, though.
Yeah I don't find this exciting at all, if it's gonna cost 450k miles...

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2020, 03:17:27 AM »
Yeah I don't find this exciting at all, if it's gonna cost 450k miles...
But we recently saw very attractive fares from Tel Aviv ($2.5k), which can be a better deal than an award redemption, (use hybrid points if necessary). And hopefully with all three 3 big American carriers competing on the route, we'll have some exciting price wars

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2020, 03:39:24 AM »
Suites in general are way overrated
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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2020, 06:48:54 AM »
Yeah I don't find this exciting at all, if it's gonna cost 450k miles...
the only way to get a half decent USA- TLV redemption value using Skymiles is Virgin at a consistent 170k + $120

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2020, 08:17:03 AM »
Suites in general are way overrated
Maybe because people are expecting J suites to be more like F suites? I believe F suites have mainly positive ratings. But you can't expect J to be like F just because it's a "suite"

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2020, 08:18:41 AM »
Maybe because people are expecting J suites to be more like F suites? I believe F suites have mainly positive ratings. But you can't expect J to be like F just because it's a "suite"
I've flown plenty of F suites and find them overrated. It doesn't really make you all that more comfortable.
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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2020, 08:43:39 AM »
TBH, I don't have personal experience with any of them, but can someone who did report which DL J product is better, A333 or J suite?

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2020, 10:47:22 AM »
Now officially on sale. Prices the same as the A333 (not a given on all airlines...) at $2632 RT from TLV in J ($3692 from JFK)
PE at $1789 from TLV and $1879 from JFK (pretty standard for this route)

As far as the twice daily schedule, it still seems a bit uncertain. For now it's on sale starting Dec 13, but from Jan 17 through Mar 31, the afternoon flight is currently zeroed out on all days besides Monday and Thursday (Thankfully there will be a early Thursday option on DL).

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2020, 12:56:51 PM »
I wasn't all that impressed with the A359 D1 suite and the A339 D1 suite is even narrower...
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/trip-notes-48-hours-amsterdam-via-delta-a350-suites/

I think that the bigger point is that it helps raise the bar to make the other airlines use mre of their premium products as well.
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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2020, 03:59:46 PM »
Any partner avail?

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Re: FINALLY!!! Delta to introduce J class suites and PE to TLV!
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2020, 04:03:51 PM »
Any partner avail?
So, nothing in economy either (on the a333, there's a ton of partner availability in economy)