Originally Posted by
chichow
I might pay a visit to the mainland first,
If you are discussing service standards are you also looking at Mainland carriers? or KLM?
I do think that a CI 350 is better than a CI 777 or EVA 777. The A350 is my favorite mainstream (not A380) plane from a passenger perspective all other things being equal.
I haven't flown with mainland carriers in over a decade. However, as I also intend to visit the mainland once schedules and prices to/from Europe normalise, I would strongly consider taking one of them later this year on my next trip, as the flight time savings is significant (2-3h westbound). Likely the service won't be as good as CI or BR, but I'm accustomed to AF and my last trip to Asia was on CX (from EWR). Due to my FF programme, I tend to fly Skyteam so no BR for me.
And agreed, the A350 is a great appareil to fly on ; I repositioned for the CI flight to take it (FRA is served by a 77W) and didn't regret it at all.