Hong Kong
Captain Denton lead a great crew on this morning's departure of United flight 801 from LAX to Hong Kong. He even did a full-on briefing of both business class cabins before departure, complete with his flight maps, which was super cool. Purser Bret, flight attendants Sonia, Christopher, and Emily, and a few others were also excellent-- turns out I'd flown with Sonia before on one of her previous trips to Hong Kong. While my friend Carl might recognize almost all of the flight attendants he flies with more than once, this was an (almost) first for me to see a familiar face.
The new warm nuts and pretzel mix is a definite downgrade from the old one, while the smoke duck is still good. Supposedly the chicken and noodle entree looks better than the one prepared by SFO, but not having done any Polaris long-haul flights out of SFO in a while, I couldn't say. (might need to again to compare?)