Originally Posted by
pushmyredbutton
I think UA goes way above what other foreign carriers do with their FA's and their English ability. I don't see Asian carriers hiring native English speakers for their flights, and most of the time I find their FA's to be intelligible for anything other than basic requests.
This. Well..I think you meant UNintelligble.
IME Western airlines (those with a real international network anyway) do a
reasonable job of employing native speakers of destination countries... in a way I have NOT witnessed on Chinese or Japanese carriers.....or Singapore airlines, or Thai (although Ive had less problem making myself understood on those two) Now don't get me wrong.... I do NOT expect/demand/require airlines from non-English speaking countries to have staff who are uniformly fluent in MY language...but if Western airlines are expected to meet a certain standard...well..... lets be consistent.