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Every piece on the journal carrying the hnd 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.
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.
Cathay's small but disproportionately good First Lounge above the Terminal 3 satellite at HND is the strongest non-home-base first-class lounge in the OneWorld network, and on a Krug-poured Champagne flight in 2026 it now meaningfully outpaces several home-base products. We spent three visits inside it across April and May to file the proper review.
The JAL First Class Lounge at HND Terminal 3 on the fourth and fifth floors. Three visits across February 2026. The Champagne Bar, Sushi Tsurutei, the Dining Room, the showers, and where this lounge actually sits in the oneworld league table.