<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Marco Polo:
"Dragonair is more or less as good as CX's regional routes for their in-flight product"
YOU GOTTA BE JOKING. Which Dragonair flights have inflight movies, international credit card call phone in the seat, seat width in Business class, Empower connection in the seat for your laptop, inflight internet email connection and the new livery reclining seats ? ? ?
When CX enters the Mainland market who will want to fly Dragonair and MU until they upgrade their products to match ? </font>
OK - what I meant was compared to the CX A330 and 777. But I guess I look for different things when I am flying to China since I am normally on the company's time (so I'm not watching films). Certainly on the Dragonair A330 the business seats are as good as CX's "old"-J (which will remain on the 777s). I prefer the old seats anyway - I just slide onto the floow on the new ones, and at least there is somewhere to rest my feet on the old ones.
And the food is just as good in business or first.
Why do you need laptop power for a 2-3 hour flight - my battery is good for that long? The inflight email is useless because it doesn't support IP-VPN and constrains your use of clients and I have never in my entire travelling with CX (over 400 flights so far) seen anyone using the inseat phone. But then again at the prices they charge they probably only need about 5 calls per year system-wide to cover the cost!