Showing posts with label China Southern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Southern. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

Flying with China Southern Airlines

Flying with China Southern has been a delight! It has been very positive! The staff is nice, the food is ok (it's always good when you depart from Amsterdam), and the free stuff is amazing. We all had a bag on our seat, in addition to the complimentary pillow and blanket, with a toothbrush, some toothpaste, earplugs and a sleeping mask.
The in-flight entertainment system in the Airbus A330 is amazing as well. The selection of movies and TV-shows was very chinese however, and movies were censored, China-style. I watched a movie where in one scene, a man is hanging on the edge of a cliff and the good guy then walks up him, and the next thin you see is a splash in the water.
I didn't understand anything that was being said over the speakers as the Chinese staff has limited English skills. Sadly.
Transfer and security in China is a story all by itself. More on that in a later post.
Back on the airplane, Gigi and I switched seat. The USB in the seat next to her worked so I'm borrowing his. 1/4 work, terrible.
The woman behind me began to rage when I tilted my seat back after dinner, which is allowed, so I turned around, looked at her and kindly asked her in a deep, loud voice: "Har du et problem eller hva?!" - There weren't any further issues after that.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Amsterdam!

We got safely through security and now waiting to board. We got here early so we even got to watch the G4S guys check out the security area. I was surprised at how thorpugh they were: Checked everything, the emergency fire hose, the paper rolls for printing new boarding passes and both sides of the glass wall (really?)...

We had our seats changed for free, courtesy of KLM, so we're a little closer at least.
This area is like chinatown. All advertisement is in chinese and then the dead faces staring at this tall white guy walking through the masses, pretty funny.

Looking forward to board and see what food we'll be served. Never flew with China Southern before.