Originally Posted by
nldogbert
In my experience, never experienced actually on KE (although indeed very limited experience with them, maybe 2 flights max till today).
For me so far CI has been very consistent in greetings ST E+ pax on longhaul flights (or actually any flights operated by longhaul planes) - although my experience here has been when seating in the PE cabin (even when the cabin is used as Y class -for the HKG-TPE sector).
On AF/KL - very seldom even as a FB Plat.
Cheers!
My experience as ST E+ (through AF/KL) was that the crew at CI acknowledged it on a 5th freedom flight between CGK and HKG. The crew provided extra amenities like asking if we wanted drinks refill and extra packs of rice crackers in Economy. However I would like to note loads for both flights were not full (~60-70%). On AF, no acknowledgment within EU flights, even if you are flying on J. On KL, flying J intra-EU, was greeted on several of my flights. I tend to think it could be a difference between a full flight and one that has less loads, as the workload of the crew matters as well. On my AF flights, they were mostly full, while the KL and CI flights had quite a substantial number of empty seats in the respective cabins I was flying in.