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China Eastern Airlines Here is a link about the food in airplanes : http://www.airlinemeals.net/ Go check the Chinese meals out ! And don't hesitate to make some contributions, as most of the pictures concerning Chinese flights are a little bit old. Ying Zhang : Indeed, the best flights I've never had in China are both on Hainan Airlines : - a sunday night flight from Shanghai enroute to Beijing, the pilot was talking with a strong Cantonese accent, it just reminds me flying on Air France - a Hainan flight from Hohhot to Beijing, in a turboprop Dornier 328. A nice fly over the Great Wall, highlky skilled pilots, perfect landing between Airbus and Boeing. Just great ! |
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Where are You? Hi, I'm French, living between Beijing and Shanghai for 4 years. Reading your blog for 3 years now. After starting to aggregate your RSS through the Google Reader feature (which I highly recommend to everybody), I'm able to read your posts everyday for few months and so, starting to write my first comments on your blog. |
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China Eastern Airlines I often fly on CEA between Shanghai and Beijing. As a foreigner in China, flying domestic could be surprising but often painless. Noticeable things: - In Beijing Airport, CEA has its own raw of check-in counters. Few queue, even in rush hours or golden weeks. - Taking off/landing at Beijing Airport in CEA planes takes much more time, as the planes are always at the other side of the airport. You have to go to the gates, give your tickets, board/unboard the bus, then finally board the plane after visiting the new Beijing airport. Definitely too much hassle for passengers. - At Hongqiao airport, CEA has also its own counters. Nice checking-in and nice boarding, even if they often changed the gate at the last minute (this pb should be an airport management problem). We can talk for hours about companies in China, as China Southern with its own nice terminal in Beijing, and a good mix of brand new (A321) and very poor aircrafts (B757). Hainan Airlines is very nice, with comfortable aircrafts (did you ever seat the all leather seated B767 arriving late in Beijing ? this is the plane flying to Hungary 3-4 times a week), great connexions, but from times to times some young pilots confusing between B767 and Mig-27 (actually, a very bad memory of a BJ-SH flight with air-pockets and turbulence...). Most of the time, it depends the city the hub is settle down. If you fly CEA at Shanghai, Air China at Beijing, China Southern at Canton/Beijing or Hainan at Haikou/Xian, you won't be disappointed. However, there is no one very much better than the others. That is maybe the only regret I have about flying domestic in China. |