Don’t worry folks, the adventure continues! After a rather unique flight late last week in China Southern A380 first class from Los Angeles to Guangzhou, I was quite looking forward to my flight from Guangzhou to Tokyo Narita on China Southern. To be honest I was kind of curious whether the flight from Los Angeles…
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Thats great, for an airline I'll avoid. At least you had the safest choice of meals.
wow, I used to think cz is the one of the better one among Chinese carriers, I guess I was wrong!
Haha, you really are getting the full China Shazhern experience, thanks for sharing!
Between this post and the other China Southern, it sounds to me like they have a huge problem with stuff disappearing, whether food, booze, or empty premium seats. I'm thinking their approach is just to dumb everything down so much that it doesn't matter if it's stolen. The good food coming from LA could have been a fluke being that there wasn't time to hijack it on the way to the plane.
Or, like Sochi, $1000 spent on supplies, has half of it going in someone's pocket.
Wow. I'm flying them in J in 2 months to KUL. I guess I better bring some crackers along...
LMAO!!!! You are sooooo funny!!! Tks for making me NOT wanting to fly China Southern ever.
If that serve that lets-call-it food in first, I wonder what they serve in economy.
I guess this will be the norm for US based legacy carriers soon. That looks like United economy food.
This post made my day. I regularly fly Skyteam and have been offered CS flights as I regularly fly to Guangzhou/Hong Kong. Seems Skyteam have a knack for choosing the worst airlines out there. Then again the LHR T4 Skyteam lounge is one of my favourites and so is the Taipei lounge. Enjoy your travels.
Can't a flight attendant tell if the plane's on descent??? Unbelievable lack of intuitive training and rote following of computer output.
Suckers, not all of us obsess over the soft product. I'll be booking CZ next year with my UR points and enjoying the hard product and not playing 15 days out with LH.
Lucky, maybe she saw you using your grindr, and was trying to force you to close it...LOL
I wouldn't dare using mine in China! haha
Looks like the Air France first class seat with a different entertainment system...
So another botched attempt at a good soft product. Why am I not surprised???
Wtf is up with the creepy glove?
That airline has always been horrible, never heard nice things beside young cute fa
That food looks so bad I could smell it's grossness just by looking at the picture on my laptop!
This had me cracking up- "making sure there was no Facebook/Twitter/GRINDR usage? Freaking weird…" haha love that you added the last part 😉 but now I'm curious if grindr even works in china?
Seat aside I think my recent economy class trip MEL-CAN-LHR-CAN-MEL was better than your first class one. I'd didn't even need to wear gloves in the lounge.
so bad it's comical. typical of china, beneath the billion watts of shining glitzy surface at 08 Olympics & 10 World Expo lies the filthy unruly mentality that's still in 19th century.
So the flight attendant chose the beef before you get to choose!
However, same thing happen in the US too. I had a friend who was an old NW F/A and he told me one time they took all the shrimp out of all J appetizer and told the pax that shrimps weren't catered that day
There's one hour time difference between China and Japan, and the attendants probably forgot that... LOL
Pretty hilarious that they ran out of one of the meal options even though you were the only person in F
@ Lucky - after having so much fun with CZ, are you going to fly Kuwait next?
Now that you've reviewed Air China and China Southern, I think you should review China Eastern next!
@fly30khigh using grindr in China is risky enough. But Lucky had better be careful - if for some reason authorities in Dubai or a similar extremely conservative/anti-gay country searched his phone and found grindr installed it could go downhill fast. And god forbid they find the photos he's received in Whatsapp.
Having transited through PEK last year I can confirm grindr DOES work in China. But Facebook? No, needed to download a VPN for that which was easily done 🙂
I wouldn't question a declaration of descent, sometimes it is unscheduled. I was on the UA flight where the captain suffered a heart attack and we were told we were descending an hour and a half out of SEA but were not told destination. Everyone thought we were going to SEA. We didn't know where we were until we got to the gate (many people thought we were in SEA), then an announcement was made (we were in BOI).
maybe chinese airlines have too little experience in serving foreign passengers in non-economy classes. I am chinese and I like cz economy class food..they serve it on short domestic flights free if the flight is during lunch or dinner time. not tasty but acceptable and much better than nothing in america. and sitting in economy i feel their services are good and caring….maybe because i feel better to speak chinese than english. or maybe because i have no business/first class experience in international airlines.
Perhaps it's a language barrier? The beef noodle soup in China Southern is great.
Why would China mind Grindr? I've found the place be quite embracing of gays, the locals definitely like jack'd better 😉
Another awesome post! You've tried almost all of the best first class products, so I think it's high time that you try to find the worst coach flights.
Lucky, you're one brave dude! Eating stuff from a country where their citizens have no qualms about poisoning (and killing) at least six children and made almost 300,000 sick just for $!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/22/china-baby-milk-scandal-death-sentence
The seat configuration looks great! I am looking forward to having one or two trips on China Southern Airlines. After all, you need to give some patience to let the airline improves the service. I would grab a seat when the availability is still good.
@Terry, are you from a country full of the genetic modified and artificial additive? Birth place of junk food restaurant like KFC or Burger King?
Grindr works in China but probably won't get you laid...try Jack'd instead, just saying. 😀
@w.w
Totally agree with your idea. I flew on CZ recently and found that they had improved a lot. The seat pitch in Premium Economy Class was amazing, and the food was much better than before.
P.S. I am a Chinese too.
@Shi Guo, nope, lucky me, I am NOT from America nor Canada, even if I were to move there, there is always REAL organic foods I can eat.
One thing for sure, unlike in China (and PRC's airlines), where I'm from, I won't have to be extra careful about my kids' milk powder adulterated with melamine or gutter oil and fake eggs in my food.
you don't have to be careful about milk powder, but you need to be afraid of your children being shot in school. What is purpose of raising food safety topic here. We are discussing airlines. This is not CNN or yahoo
@Shi Guo, something wrong with your eyes??? I don't live in America. Period. So what "getting shot" nonsense are babbling about? I live in one of the safest countries in the world - Hong Kong. Heard of this country before?
I mentioned food safety because food and drinks are served on long haul flights! Duh! You PRCs make me feel ashame to be Chinese.
@Terry,Sorry I haven't heard of the country called Hongkong. It is not shown on google.
Well I've never turned on Grindr in an Admirals Club, but I guess I have to now, since it seems there's a chance I might get lucky. 😉
@Terry "The seat configuration looks great! I am looking forward to having one or two trips on China Southern Airlines. After all, you need to give some patience to let the airline improves the service. I would grab a seat when the availability is still good."
Seriously? Do you work for China Southern?
What good is the seat if you aren't allowed to use it? It sounds like a fake seat to me. They don't want to wash the entire plate to save money and they probably don't want to spend money to wash the pillow and blankets so they present it but don't let you use it. Bogus. Really bogus Terry-China-Southern-fan-boy.
本来就是航空公司的错，但是你本末倒置赖到空姐头上。因为你随手写的这么篇文章相关的空乘都遭到了处罚，可以说是“城门失火殃及池鱼”，你文中提到的口语不好。那我想请问贵国的航空公司飞中国航线的空姐的中文就很好吗？5刀的起气泡酒你可以选择不喝，拿起碗吃肉放下碗骂娘！做爱的时候叫人家老婆，射完了叫人家碧池，你这是什么心态？至于空姐睡觉，人家也是人也是父母养的，既然没影响你至于这么较真吗？现在整个乘务组就因为你的一篇文章停飞的停飞降级的降级，等于是你折断了人家的翅膀，断了人家的生路，这回你该开心了吧！
PS：我不知道你看不看得懂中文，但是这些话我一定要说。
PS2：我不是什么航空公司的枪手，也不是专门针对谁。但是我的妻子以前也是空姐，她的辛苦我看得到。至少在我这里看来，把航空公司的制度问题全部推到空姐身上是十分幼稚甚至是愚蠢的。