Shanghaiist: And the biggest fan of Chinese airlines is...

drumdance

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:29:36 +0800

I just found this post so I'm late to the party, but it should be noted that Fallows is also a very experienced pilot and has written a couple of well-regarded books about the airline industry. He's seen it from both sides -- pilot and passenger.

nanheyangrouchuan

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:21:21 +0800

If the airlines got rid of unions that only thing that would change would be higher CEO salaries, a slight uptick of profits and pilots who are so run down that they would be shooting coffee into their veins before takeoff and landing.

evo

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:45:50 +0800

well, i reckon he has a far point. There is no denying that the offerings of most chinese airlines are basic, but compared to american airlines, anything is better. I have heard only horror stories from American airports regarding check in, security and immigration. Despite an obvious lack of good restaurants and shops in most chinese airports, the functional aspects are really quite good. if only those american airlines could get around the unions and fire those narcy old hags and employ a more Richard Bransonesque recruitment policy.

EL JEFE

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:33:12 +0800

This dude is more or less right, and clearly just has a semi about living in China. I live up in this piece and fly almost every week -- always economy -- and the security is a breeze compared to the shit you have to deal with in the US. I disagree about the food, but almost everything else is better. In China, I don't like that there are no A/C controls, that they leave the cabin sound on during the in-flight programs, that they never tell you what the hell is going on if you are late, or that you might have to take the stupid bus to the plane. To me, though, these are all minor compared to the undressing, heavy petting and severe ass-wanding you get in the US. You never need that extra hour at the airport in China, and now the SH - BJ link-up, although pricier, generally lets you avoid dealing with all those fucknuts and their 17 bags of food.

1

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:52:38 +0800

it's simple, you freetards. he flies business, bases his reporting on economic class prices, assumes service is the same. typical china reporting, at least he was out on an airplane doing "research" and not hiding in his hotel room from the unwashed masses, the pollution and those evil evil censors and secret police. and of course from those little dwarfs injecting lead into every barbie made here.

jenming

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:28:53 +0800

Wow. I don't care who's a "god" where. This is just absurd. At 150 USD, he can't be flying first class, so either he's just reporting what the people at china eastern told him, or he told them he was flying before he got on the plane. I will admit that I usually don't have much trouble with the airport itself, but never encountered a surly flight attendant? I call shenanigans.