Originally Posted by
Rumples
Wife and i are in our 30s and asian - we actually feel like we get better service on the TPACs and transcons. They tend to relax a bit when they realize were ABCs who can also speak fluently in Chinese.
I was on LAX-NRT last Christmas in J.
The FAs were NRT based, but most of them were native Mandarin speakers, which I thought odd (because I don't know what the rules are to be based in NRT as a UA FA; do you have to be a Japanese speaker/citizen?) --though it was much appreciated in our cabin, as there were Mandarin speaking passengers on board.
The service was excellent, and I don't think anyone was treated differently based on their race or language of communication with FAs.
I thought the HKG based UA FAs were from the U.S., though I'm only basing this off of one of the videos UA posted on YouTube. The HKG based FAs on my flight from EWR-HKG spoke Cantonese, Mandarin, and Tagalog.