Paul's Flight report for
Air China
Flight CA966
FRA - PEK / Boeing 777-300
Flight Time: 8hrs 58minutes
Business Class

General Impression: 🐑🐑🐑🌿

Before the Flight :
Check-in Process: In Transit
Transit Counter: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Lounge: 🐑🐑🐑🌿 AIr Canada Lounge
Information: 🐑🐑🐑
Boarding @ Gate: 🐑🐑
Staff @ these points: 🐑🐑🐑🌿
Boarding in Cabin: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Welcome Drinks: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Punctuality: 🐑🐑🐑🐑, 2min early

During the Flight :
Food presentation: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Food quality: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Drinks: 🐑🐑🐑🐑🌿
Service Procedure: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Amenity Kit: 🐑🐑🐑
Entertainment System: 🐑🐑🐑
Seat Quality: 🐑🐑🐑🌿
Legroom: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Lavatories: 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Cleanliness: 🐑🐑🐑🐑🌿
General Atmosphere: 🐑🐑🐑🌿
Announcement Pilots: 🐑🐑🐑
Announcement Cabin: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Cabin Crew: 🐑🐑🐑🐑

After the Flight :
De-Boarding: 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Baggage Delivery: in Transit

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🐑 = bad, a lot of work needs to be done
🐑🐑 =not good, you will be busy with corrections
🐑🐑🐑 = good & normal, nothing special
🐑🐑🐑🐑 = high level, but the icing on the cake is missing
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 = topnotch, leave me here!
🌿= Half a Point/sheep
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On the Ground:
As the staff in Zurich was not able to print out our boarding passes for the onward flights we had to go to the boarding gate to pick up our boarding passes and to be able to access the lounge.

The Air Canada lounge we could use was a nice and lots of space and quiet.
Choice of food was ok but. Unfortunately all hot items were cold. Nice bar with a good selection of drinks.

Boarding started quite early and priority boarding was conducted. Gate agents were ok but not the friendliest ones.

The crew was super present and friendly whilst boarding.
We got 2 seats in the center of the cabin.

Welcome drinks (champagne, juice, water) and newspapers were distributed as well as the menu and wine list for dinner.
The seats were already equipped with amenity kits, slippers and headsets.

Inflight:
The seats are comfortable and nice. Business class has 42 seats in a 2/2/2 configuration. We choose the middle seats to have direct aisle access.

After take off it took a real while (around 1 hour) until the cabin crew started with the service.
Warm nuts and a drink was served shortly followed by an amuse bouche.
For the main service a tray with salad and first course is served. Afterwards the hot dinner was served followed by fruits and then cheese and dessert.
Before landing in Beijing, around 2 hours, a hot dinner was served.

The food was nice but not as good as last time.

Bathrooms were cleaned throughout the flight and always refilled.
The amenity kit is ok. It has the regular content. Unfortunately the eye mask is made out of plastic and you start sweating and getting wet under it in less than a minute.

The Cabin Crew on this flight was friendly and helpful. They were interacting with the customers and were smiling all the time.
They were super present in the cabin and went the extra mile. Unfortunately on this flight English seemed to be a language barrier.

The inflight entertainment is ok. The system isn't the newest one anymore and Air China is not really showing current or actual blockbusters like other airlines do but you have enough choice of films to survive a longhaul flight.

All in all a good flight experience with Air China and looking forward to see if they are consistent with the next 3 flights with them.

Notes:
- Paul the Sheep does not get any benefits from the Hotels/Airlines etc.
- Paul will always pay for the services in order to be able to rate freely and truly about the experiences.
-If you are interested in more details, please send me a private message and I will be happy to share.