Not to be picky, but aren't you describing the hard product?

Very happy about the headphones. IME the current ones have to have the plug/cord in the precise correct position/angle otherwise you get a lot of crackly sound.

I laughed for 5 minutes after I read this!

I know what you mean about that coffee!

And it does seem to be a bother to the FAs when you ask for something! You are interrupting their gossip and flirt session in that F galley - and did you ever notice that there are at least 3 of them in there talking?!

It will look like Qatar!

I love Qatar's color combo on the 787! It's one of the few color combos that I really love in a cabin. Other than QR's color combo, I really love CX's color combo in the new J, and JL's gray combo. The new combo on their refitted aircraft is so-so for me. I'm pretty certain the color combo in F will not fail to impress.

One thing that could have been changed is the flooring of the F washroom. The wahsroom itself is nice, but the flooring doesn't work out for me.

The Bose headphones are a huge improvement from the current generic ones being used but a dissapointment in my opinion as I feel that Bose is overrated.

absolutely +1. But they've got the brand cache which is killer for them, and are good enough for most folks who want something better but aren't audiophiles. For the same price as the QC-15s Senheiser makes significantly better-sounding 'phones, albeit the aesthetics aren't as appealing as Bose. Basically Bose gets a brand premium.

PYE is a realtively new company founded by the daughter of the owner of Harvey Nichols. Definitely doesnt carry the cachet of Shanghai Tang.

Are you sure? Do you mean the guy that has the right to run the Harvey Nichol stores in HK? Dickson Poon

Yes, Mafai is correct. But the brand is actually from her mother who has a 40 year old company making clothes.

Well that answers the question as to how they got that contract then:td:

I have purchased quite a few shirts from PYE since they opened their Pacific Place store a couple of months back. The shirts are actually pretty comfortable and their selection of colors and styles are pretty good.

I would like to think that CX has a tender process for these things btw??

But to be honest the price they charge is 2X what a good HK tailor will charge and really you are not even for any big shot designer

Doesn't matter how good the actual products sold in their stores are. The real question is whether the PJs will be of the same quality or CX will simply use lower quality material and put the PYE brand on it, just like it did with Shanghai Tang PJs.

But if you put gap and use a nice material, what will people think?
The shanghai tang PJs were good and I don't see any problems with it?

The Shanghai Tang PJ's have been around forever and I am getting a little bored of them so it's nice to see a change. Only time will tell if we like them or not.

New J headphones
 

New headphones in J tonight, on an A333 with the new longhaul J cabin.

No brand. CX logo.
Noise cancelling with no audio playing may be slightly better than old version
Sound quality watching TV show was so-so
Sound quality listening to music was terrible. Really awful.
I did a comparison with a few songs that both IFE had and I had on my iPhone :
- iphone + stock apple ear bud headphones were much, much better quality

I think I will now finally buy some proper headphones to take on the plane, as the stock version is now unusable for music.

Thanks CX...