<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by christep:
- you get food and drink for free; two meals on trans-pacific flights; you are more likely to get rice or noodles than on a US domestic flight
- the stewardesses are prettier, much younger, and much more likely to give you good service
- the legroom is OK, but not as good as MRTC
- they have IFE in all seats with about 20 channels of video and another 20 of audio to choose from; but no channel 9 as per UA.
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Since you wee so technical about the question, allow me to get technical about your reply:
On transoceanic flights operated by US based airlines, you too get 2 meals during a flight, and it's also free
. I may be wrong on this, but I believe that UA also serves free cocktails.
On a recent trip to London I had the pleasure to be served by a very young AA crew that looked like they just came off the Vogue pages. So I'm not sure one should generalize.
AA does have MRTC which is about 3-4 inches more than CX, but AA does not fly to HKG, so it's a moot point.
Most of the US baed airlines during transoceanic flights on 777s also have individual screens in Y, although I will admit, the choices or on demand may not be as good as CX.
Just want to be fair!