Originally Posted by
SQUALO
Ladies & Gentlemen,
China is a country with around 1.5 billion people (not to mention how many people are not even registered), it is just not possible to offer this service.
As also, in China, nobody cares about service and most of them don't understand even what it means, they are all getting used flying with China Eastern, China Southern, you should see their aircrafts and how much legroom they have. For Chinese passengers it is more about, lowest price, service sucks, but that's okay, it must be cheap and the lowest fare possible.
There are airlines for RMB 100, for domestic flights, their flight-attendants are not here to serve, they spend their time in selling mickey-mouse towels, cups, mugs, anything you can think of. (not to mention how many hours a flight delay might be on each of those flights).
If Chinese passengers would be willing to pay for service, I guess Emirates would launch that service immediately, but right now, China Eastern might be the leader in offering the cheapest fares with out added value.
The EK Business Class product is not for Chinese people looking out for cheapest fares, clearly. Keep in mind also that there's plenty of foreigners flying to China, it isn't just the Chinese flying on EK.
I think the reason would have more to do with finding a dependable service provider as EK does not provide these services themselves. Perhaps the cost is prohibitive, or competition is so weak EK feels they can get away without providing the service.
Comparing number of billionaires (they probably fly private) and millionaires (they probably fly economy on personal travel) is meaningless, as these aren't the people filling up J cabins.