Air china musings
Am never putting myself on another air china flight
Just landed and was asleep half the time (thanks to all the free champagne in the cathay pacific lounge) but pretty funny watching how inexperienced and yet eager to please the air stewarts were. It's like they are all young sweet summer interns with no training. Not very competent and if already a bit like a flock of headless chicks on a normal flight, what if something did happen? Also pretty amazing the types of luggage they let u bring on board and just leave in the space where your legs would be normally
Have never liked the new bj airport, nicely designed it is yet it always feels handicapped. Every single arrival has always had some type of minor issue that'd delay the process. So the simple process of getting off a flight to getting to a cab easily takes 40 min whereas in hk it'd take 10.
The only savings grace is that the cabride into town takes 30 min max vs the 1 hr for shanghai
8/23/09
Leaving is not that much easier. The airport is not air conditioned properly. Pre flight, Only way to go from one terminal to another is by bus. There are not enough escalators to take passengers between the different floors. Armed with boarding pass, The inter terminal trains take forever to arrive, and while one pays a full cathay fare, the code share air china = u don't get air china lounge access nor priority check in. U can trek over to the dragon air lounge sans invitation though. The worst part-
Flights NEVER seem to be on time.
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