Originally Posted by
carbacca
was on a QF from SYD to HKG and announcements were done in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. The cantonese and mandarin was done pretty badly though, lots of mumbling. Domestic flights to shanghai would use Wu chinese instead of cantonese i think?
in china they sure as hell don't use a whole lotta english...where i am now (zhuzhou, hunan) english is non existent and you'd struggle to do anything with english
YMMV. On my Shandong Airlines flight from Lanzhou to Urumqi in June, English (but no Uyghur) was used for announcements too. Possibly for the only gringo (me) aboard? Heh...luckily, I don't really need it, but regarding that flight, another issue arose. The flight was delayed about 3-4 hours, and no announcements were made at Lanzhou Airport, let alone in English. Surprisingly, SC provided both a (decent) meal and a room at the airport hotel, but without being aggressive/knowing the lingo, how would the others know?
In case you're curious, the day I took that flight was the day a Nordwind jet from Phuket to somewhere in Siberia emergency landed in Lanzhou.