Experience of UCS on other carriers?

Has anyone experienced the UCS on other carriers - the obvious one is New Zealand air as they are a VA partner, and should therefore also give points and miles (do they?).

I have an upcoming trip to LAX and NZ are within £50 GBP of the VA price, and I'd imagine the service would be pretty good?

Thanks.

Hopefully this wont get moved as it'll get a lot more replies here, and is as much about VA as any other carrier...

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Sorry vizbiz, since it relates directly to all carriers other than VS, I have to move it to the Airlines forum.

It should receive the same amount of visibility - as all recent topics show up under Active Topics, regardless of the forum they're posted in.


Also, as the moment (to my knowledge) Air NZ are the only other carrier with the UCS layout.

NZ are the only ones with UCS although Air Canada will be getting something almost identical.

NZ service is fantastic which ever class you are in. I use to live in NZ and did frequent trips on them and they always impressed me. the crew on LHR-LAX will be UK based- but you wont see a difference. Try NZ you maybe pleasantly surprised

Air Canada link.

BC

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Yup - I've seen the AC seats. The key difference is that you sleep on the same surface as you sit on - so no seperate "mattress" material/cushioning. [n]

(You also get those lumps where the different sections of the seat join...)


Why, oh why, can't AC get anything entirely right? [ii]

I had a couple of good flights with AC some years ago, and from a service perspective they were VERY good. However, their web site says they're rolling out the UCS seat "startign in the Spring 2006", and I'm looking at departure to SYD on March 8th(ish). Doesn't seem like there'd be much widespread use of the UCS that early?

Thanks for any info on this.

I thought that one of the conditions of other carriers using UCS was that no carrier was to use it on the same route as VS?
Personally, I think it would have been far better to have them exclusive, although like with J2000, I bet every other airline would have come up with their own look-alikes.[n]

Cheers,
VS045