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Old Aug 1, 2017 | 9:45 am
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caverunner17
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Originally Posted by cubachao
Another thing I would to point out is the flight attendants quality, UA only out one or two FAs who can speak Chinese on this route, however, more than half of customers in economy couldnt speak English, and receive bad service from English speaker FAs( language and culture barrier), that's why most tourists prefer Chinese carrier since it's easy to communicate. Off course this does not apply to those who could speak English. I have friends work in tour company in China, most clients specifily request Chinese carrier because some of them don't like US based FAs.
I find this to be the case on many of UA's TPAC flights though. You'd think with all the flights to China, TPE, HKG and NRT they'd have a subset of FA's that can speak Chinese or Japanese fluently. I mean hell, in my intra-Asia flights on Air Asia, ANA and Cathay, they could speak three languages - The home language, destination language and English!

Hell, on my ANA flight, we even got a printed menu to look at.
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