FIRST CLASS AMENITIES
 

Hi y'all! All information appreciated. What, if any, amenities are offered on CO on route EWR-HKG (yeah right!) other than the completely obvious? I've heard/read of foreign airlines offering quite nice things on theirs. Do the American international carriers not even try to perform these services? Thanks again!

CO doesn't offer F on EWR-HKG, it is only business class ... so you will get zero first class amenities (CX does have F service JFK-HKG and has a luxurious service, complete with flat beds, caviar and personal space equal to 8 coach seats). That said, this is CO's flagship route so you will get CO at its best. I have no idea what that is like (I fly CX instead). Maybe you can do a trip report and let us know what CO is like.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/006800.html

This is a critical review of EWR-HKG that was posted on the CO board a few months ago.

Wow! That CO review was an eye-opener. Reminds me of why I don't fly CO. Let me contrast that with CX, the only competition on the New York to HongKong route. CX has good crews, and bad crews, like all airlines. Every glass on CX has the Cathay Pacific logo on one side (the other side is blank). The good crews place the glass on your tray in a fluid motion, with the logo facing you -- every time. The bad crews put the glass down, and then rotate it so that the logo faces you -- every time. Does that give you an idea about the attention to detail that goes into an airline (and why I fly CX)? I like to think that the mechanic fixing that engine on CX was also using that screwdriver the same way (just right).

This is well put - I also fly the route and would not even consider the CO service even with the added time for the CX flight (going away of course when the 340-600 is in place) In any case, there really is no debate on this. I have a trip report that I will post this weekend on the CX service on this flight if you can wait.