Best Star Alliance Business Class Service from Birmingham (or Heathrow) to Hong Kong
Mrs.Businesstraveller and myself are looking to make a return trip to Hong Kong a little later this year and would like to burn some Star Alliance miles.
Options are going to be preferably from Birmingham (local) with Lufthansa, Swiss, SAS or Turkish or from Heathrow with Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand or possibly Thai. All subject to redemption flight availability and how reasonable the airlines view your requested routing of course.
I'd be interested to hear views on the best service one might choose when considering:
1) Quality of seats/beds
2) Onboard service
3) Catering
4) Ground facilities - departure/arrival lounges
From previous experience (not on such long routes however) and what I hear, I get the impression Thai and Swiss would be near the top and SAS near the bottom. Views would be received with interest however.