Originally Posted by
HNLbasedFlyer
Cant wait to check that out when SWISS flies from Honolulu. The fascination with foreign airlines when most of us fly domestically is - fascinating. SWISS is not a competitor to any US airline flying US domestic.
Unfortunately this is a straw man argument. This thread is about service standards, and the comparison is germane - two very short flights on narrow body aircraft with similar crew numbers. One airline, United, chooses more often than not to do nothing - or more specifically, their employees or regional contractors refuse to offer service and United refuses to hold them accountable to certain published standards - while another airline is able to serve beverages and a snack bag to everyone in coach, and a small nicely plated and presented breakfast to everyone in business in the same period of time.
International or domestic is irrelevant. The comparison of two regional aircraft, an A220 in this case, flying a short flight between business centers most certainly is relevant.