Originally Posted by
ani90
What exactly do you expect in terms of an airline supplied headphone? Do the other star alliance airlines you use have non rewrapped headphones? I rarely use the airline headphones so trying to understand how this is any different from headphones I see in other airlines. At least aesthetically though I must say there are several more crappy and very plasticky looking J headphones I have seen in my travels...
Every flight I've taken to Asia in business class provided noise canceling headphones.
I was a bit shocked to see United providing cheap ghetto bargain bin headphones for a 10 hour flight.
Judging from the comments, it seems this may be industry norm though.