China Airlines

It has been four years since I last went home and I was very excited to finally get a chance to come home. After all the necessary documents such as passport renewals were completed I immediately purchased my plane ticket home from Orbitz. I chose China Airlines since they offered the cheapest tickets ~About the Flight When you look at the itinerary it looks pretty hectic because the flight had three legs. The journey started from JFK (NY) Airport and I had a stop at Anchorage (AK) for the first leg. The second leg was from Alaska to Taipei, Taiwan. The final leg was a short flight from Taipei to Manila. The whole journey took approximately 22 hrs. ...  Read the complete review

Concerning China Airlines flt. CI 065 and CI 066 Amsterdam- Bangkok. Bangkok- Amsterdam.
If you like comfort, modern aircraft and pleasant flight attendants please pay the extra and fly with "any" other carrier! Believe me these were the two worst long haul flights ive ever flown. My wife was in tears on the return flight!
Very cramped grubby seats, poor central video screen with half the screen obscured by huge chinese subtitles, food edible...just! So the only thing to do is have a few good drinks and hopefully pass out for 11 hours or so, but unfortunately they ran out of alcohol in the first 2 hours of outbound flight and were very relunctant in serving alcohol on return flight.
I guess you get what you pay for but in China Airlines case we reckon we got a lot less than we payed for.

I recently traveled with China Airlines so thought I would share my thoughts on them. Despite its name, this is the airline of Taiwan not China. In some countries it is called Mandarin Airlines. I traveled with China Airlines from Glasgow to Bangkok via Amsterdam. Amsterdam is their main European hub, depending on where you are connecting from the first flight will probably be with KLM UK. The first leg was on a Fokker regional jet, which is reasonably comfortable with legroom, seat size etc ( I am a six footer ) The main out leg was in an Boeing 747 with a standard passenger layout holding over 300 passengers. The plane was ...  Read the complete review

It is worthwhile to note that there are lots of Chinese airlines, and while I am not aware of the relationships between them all, I guess from their names that they each serve different zones of China (e.g., China Eastern, China Northern, China Sichuan...). Which you choose makes a great difference, it seems, considering the number of criticisms I have heard (not just in dooyoo) regarding Air China. Air China have a poor reputation, but this is not so with all Chinese airlines. I found China Eastern Airlines to be surprisingly nice. The seating was standard in size, for economy, but the cleanliness and presentation of the cabin was immaculate. ...  Read the complete review