Originally Posted by
midlevels
Especially on the regional J seat. SQ's new regional J seat makes CX regional J feel like Economy class.
Has anybody from CX management bothered to fly on the new SQ regional J to try it out? Or are they just ignoring the problem and hoping that nobody notices?
I suspect other N.E. Asian airlines do not do significantly better than CX on regional seats. That's because most regional flights for CX are not much more than 4 hours, with the exception of flights to India. So the business case for putting in wonderful seats is probably limited.
SQ needs good regional seats as a lot of its regional flights are 6 hours long - you need that much time to get to Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and New Delhi, and many of these flights are red eyes. It often makes me wonder why on earth so many companies choose to have their Asia Pacific HQ's here.