Carriers from mainland China should be avoided. Any business product from SQ, CX, JL, NH, OZ, BR, CI, KL, TG, MH or GA is preferable. They also allow their pilots to smoke on the flight deck. Air China First Class seems to be the exception. As a result, there are fewer reward seats available for the ever-growing mass of reward players. More and more airlines are getting rid of their first class cabin. There is a reason they price their product cheaper – it is an inferior product (specifically the soft product). Pleasent surprise Air China First Class Boeing 747-8 from Beijing to Frankfurt. After bad experiences on China Southern, Air China and China Eastern, I avoid them totally. It is simply false advertising that this can be called International First Class. This is in contrast to my experiences in Taiwan which is much better.īack to the flight. In my travels this is simply par for the course on how mainland Chinese behave – rude. “One of the passengers was obviously travelling with friends and before we had even got to the gate they all came up to First and were all talking on the phone loudly and were pushing passengers out of the way to get off the aircraft when we arrived at our gate, oh China Eastern…” People pushing in everywhere, screaming and yelling seemed to be the complete norm.