Hainan Airlines has announced some spiffy new interiors for their 787-9s. For those of you not familiar with Hainan Airlines, they're based in Beijing, and are one of the best mainland Chinese carriers. They are the only mainland Chinese airline to have a Skytrax 5-star rating, not that I put much weight into that. The…
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I hate the fact that I can't tell between April Fools' jokes and actual cabin product reveals anymore!
While I like the new cabin, I'm mostly annoyed at the high fuel surcharge when booking Hainan with Alaska Airlines points ($500+ RT).
Just a note that Super Economy is actually Collins Aerospace MiQ, the Economy seats are Recaro.
"Premium economy features Recaro CL3710 seats, with 13″ personal televisions."
The Premium Economy picture clearly shows Collins Aerospace MiQ seats. Recaro CL3710 seats are a standard economy model.
I actually love their old product on the BOS-PVG route if it is half or more empty - which in my experience it has always been. But if that is the case, loosing some seats in business class would not be a major hardship for them.
Hopefully they’ll use this newer configuration with premium economy on the same route/routes that demand it most. That way there will be some sort of consistency.
I don' understand why all of you who get to fly in business or first on points complain so much about fuel surcharges or other taxes. I take about 8 international trips per year (not counting the countless intra-european)in business or first, and regularly pay more than 10,000 eur for three people. Whenever I get anything below that I get a deal. Why is a 500 euro tax so much, when others pay 3x more to fly the same product??
The original reverse herringbone look like Cirrus, not B/E Super Diamond like the newer ones do.
I have flown Hainan several times in business class. The legacy business class seats are superior for comfort and leg space in flat bed position vs the new herringbone seats where the leg space is totally cramped. I will take the tradeoff of not having direct aisle access from the window seats. But I just book the inside aisle seats so this is not an issue.