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Every piece on the journal carrying the ana tag, most recent first.
We flew four carriers on the New York to Tokyo corridor in nine months. The 2026 review of ANA, JAL, Delta, and United on HND, NRT, JFK, and EWR, with the booking pattern and the airport math.
ANA's The Room is still the bar everything is measured against, but JAL's Sky Suite III and Korean Air's Prestige Suites 2.0 — both refreshed Apex variants — have closed the gap on hardware. This is the full carrier-by-carrier breakdown of New York to Tokyo in business class, with mileage redemption math, NRT vs HND practicalities, and JFK departure-terminal notes.
I flew NH9 Haneda to JFK in seat 1A on ANA's The Suite — eight first class suites per 777-300ER, the 43-inch Sony 4K screen, the Globe-Trotter amenity kit, the Krug. Here is the 2026 review of Japan's most committed first class product.
Four visits to ANA's international lounge complex at Haneda T3 between October 2025 and April 2026 — the Suite Lounge naming question, the ramen counter, the sushi bar, the showers, and how ANA's business-tier flagship reads against the JAL Sakura across the same terminal.
Seven years after its 2019 debut, ANA's 'The Room' is still the largest business class seat flying — 38 inches wide, with a footwell big enough to lie sideways in, a closing door, and a kaiseki service that quietly outclasses most first class. Here is why the bar has not moved.
ANA's Haneda-JFK service on flight NH 110, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER fitted with The Room business class, has quietly become the best premium-cabin option between Japan and the East Coast. We flew it on March 28.
We worked an ANA Mileage Club balance for six months, booked LH First trans-Atlantic on partner space, and stress-tested the SFC hack. The full 2026 teardown of the partner chart, status tiers, transfers, and round-trip rule.