Originally Posted by
yul36
Google it, its been the case for years. Every major airline does it at one time or another. Not necessarily on every flight, and I would doubt they would do it to PEK, but the practice is widespread. ...
I Googled it and found no evidence - any links would be appreciated. It's entirely possible my keywords were poorly chosen, but I tried to use a variety just in case.
So far, this reminds me of most technical conversations on FT: people read someone's opinion, then repeat it, then others repeat it, and it becomes a "fact" without any evidence anywhere to back it up. Hopefully someone has links to something other than comment boards.