Originally Posted by
brunos
Have you even flown AF on the CDG-HKG route?
They now offer a suite that is an upgraded version of the Cirrus seat with a door. Until CX comes up with Aria on this route, AF seat is far superior to CX A350 Cirrus seat. ANd the previous AF cirrus seat was fully comparable to CX A350 seats.AF food is also better and service good.
In terms of lounges, I like QF lounge at HKG, even outside of QF flights hours. And AF CDG lounge is better than what CX currently use (was not the case when you could use QR lounge at T1).
I'm not a fan of doors in business class. I found them claustrophobic rather than more private, but I am a big fan of the customized Cirrus seats on CX's A350. AF's A350 have retractable IFE which is good, but the lower storage space can't compare to CX's and thus the extra bed area is (significantly) smaller (or even non-existence). As this is my favourite feature on CX's Cirrus, I do like CX's seats better than AF, although they are similar.
In terms of food of service, I found CX to be far superior to AF. But different people have different opinion, I respect that.
Objectively, we can look at Skytrax - CX #5 and AF #9, and that's when AF's First class experience is far supeior than CX's, so I can only imagine in the other cabins, CX has its edges over AF.