Book Christmas in Australia and New Zealand for £1,480 with Air China business class

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• Grace says:

  6 Feb6 February 18:19

  I flew this route at Xmas 2 years ago. Flight itself was ok with comfy seat, loads of room. Entertainment system was awful, food terrible, in fact I got food poisoning. Poor choice of wines & spirit.
  However, cheapest business class prices and seats / room worth it.

  • Irrilius says:

    6 Feb6 February 19:22

    I flew the route about a year ago. I didn’t mind the food or drink onboard but the food in the lounge at Beijing was truly awful as was the entertainment system. I’d definitely recommend bringing a tablet/laptop loaded with movies. It’s totally worth it for the price though. I’m flying to AKL next month and have been holding out for a deal like this. Absolutely gutted that the sale dates don’t start until April!

  • Jamie says:

    7 Feb7 February 13:11

    Interesting comments. I flew LHR-PEK-SIN on a promo fare and was very disappointed with the IFE and food. The vegetarian meal on both legs was distinctly poor.
    I tried them again two days ago (landed in SIN yesterday). I was very surprised the food from Heathrow was exactly the same – I had thought they would have at least have changed the menu.
    This time though, the crew seemingly didn’t know how to heat it; I suspect they rushed it as we departed late and wanted to make up for it.
    The garlic bread came shortly after the starter. It had been defrosted but not cooked – soggy white stuff.
    The main meal came out later but was also cold…The crew were nice and friendly but couldn’t understand what I was saying.
    I decided to sent it back in the end and slept.

    A few hours later I noticed on the menu they actually have a “dine on demand” option – the crew got me the regular vegetarian option which was cooked right, but it was plain pasta with blue cheese melted on top. No other ingredients, e.g. vegetables to compliment. Quite poor.

    I noticed the PEK-SIN flight does not have any vegetarian option on the menu, so you must book a special meal in advance (which in my case looked like a gluten-free vegan meal). No vegetarian options in the lounge.

    • Jamie says:

      7 Feb7 February 13:12

      *meant to mentioned that the first flight I took was 1 year ago.

• Grace says:

  6 Feb6 February 18:20

  I flew this route at Xmas 2 years ago. The flight itself was ok with comfy seat, loads of room. Entertainment system was awful, food terrible, in fact I got food poisoning. Poor choice of wines & spirit.
  However, cheapest business class prices and seats / room worth it.

• William says:

  6 Feb6 February 18:26

  OT – Amex Plat Shangri-la Jade still pending for over a month?

  • roger says:

    6 Feb6 February 20:07

    mine pending for 3 weeks now

    • APPL says:

      6 Feb6 February 23:39

      I was in the same situation recently. Not much help from Amex, but emailed Shangri -La, and had it sorted, and upgraded to Jade within 12 hours. Was quite impressed.
      I think the issue might be on Amex side, as it is still showing as pending there.

• Harry Hv says:

  6 Feb6 February 20:38

  OT – are you going to report on BA’s new enhancement, to skip cabin-cleaning at outstations?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 23:20

    No, because it isn’t true. It was a one week test to see how much time it saved if it was done during periods of disruption in any attempt to get back on schedule.

• spoza says:

  7 Feb7 February 10:05

  Thanks for heads up. Just booked, on German site, 2 business class tickets, FRA – SYD outbound Dec 15th return Jan 12th. Total cost £3005 half of what UK site offered for the same flights.

  • ChrisW says:

    8 Feb8 February 10:28

    Same here, my wife and I are off to Melbourne for Xmas and New Year from FRA. Really good price and with added extra of sightseeing in Beijing during the wait. Has anyone got any recommendation on the best company to book a tour with during the 12 hour stop over at the airport?

    • Horatio says:

      8 Feb8 February 14:37

      Yup – Munich to Auckland over Xmas and New Year for £1,450pp. Great price. We did a Beijing layover to SYD in December 2017 and used Tour-Beijing.com who were great

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