Prologue:

Hello and welcome to this special and unique "fifth freedom" flight that took at the end of 2011.

These type of flights are defined as flights that are operated between two countries that are different from the home country of the airline operating them. in the past I have cherished these flights and they provided me the opportunity to try more "exotic" airlines. Some of the ones that I remember were JFK-YUL on AT and SFO-YVR on PR. Unfortunately during the time that I took those flights I was not much of a trip reporter and i didn't have enough photo material to create these reports. There were other "fifth freedom" flights that I wished that I could have flown on like LAX-NRT on now defunct RG, IAH-MEX on AF, SFO-YVR on QF and LAX-LHR on NZ.

For 32,500 miles to fly F on a world class carrier, this has to be the best deal for a North American award. CX proved to be a superlative experience. By far the most comfortable F seat in my limited experience in this cabin (previous F intl experiences were on LX, LH and UA at the time.).

Summary:

Undoubtedly this was the best way to fly on a transcontinental flight within North America and I was glad to fly with a top world carrier. Everything about this flight pretty much met my expectations. The only minor flaw was the absence of pralines which were mentioned on the menu but never offered