Good to see they're finally coming to town.  But I think you're exaggerating a little in saying it's a 16hr marathon including a stopover in Singapore! That's a couple of 7.5-8hr flights which is pretty easy to handle to Europe.  19hrs PER-LHR or 20hrs NYC-SIN are marathons!

Note the word "select".  Probably flights of 2hrs or more, leaving on a Wednesday when the ground temperature is between 22 and 24 degrees. :)  I'd much rather they introduced real cutlery instead, using those crappy wooden knives and forks is awful.

The dimmable windows are a scourge of flying on modern aircraft.  Intensely dislike them and the crew's attitude of "nope, sorry" when asked to please allow some daylight in.  I specifically choose airlines that allow passengers to choose how much, or how little natural light, they want.

Sorry, Chris, I must be missing something. It's a lounge for First and you say one of it's downsides is a lack of seating for first class. So who's sitting there if it's not the people the lounge is designed for? Or is it the huge number of Gold, Platinum etc FFs who get to use the lounge and ...

It also works on VA because they use the back stairs so 50% of the aircraft board from the rear and there is no long clogging queue on the airbridge.