Welcome to Hong Kong: American Airlines Inaugural from DFW to HKG on June 6, 2014
Just want to write a quick report on American Airlines’ inaugural flight from Dallas Ft Worth to Hong Kong. June 11 marks an important day on DFW history, as American Airlines launches two nonstop services to Asia – Shanghai Pudong and Hong Kong. As a Hong Kong-er, I of course want to support American Airlines’ service to Hong Kong, and despite paying for a more expensive D fare and no getting the upgrade to F, it is still a historical flight. The flight itself was mostly good but American definitely needs to step up its catering games in business class, and there are just simply not enough food – meals and snacks. It is sad to see American Airlines cutting back the snack station on its business class cabin, considered the 777-300ERs have just been around for a year. DFW-HKG is a scheduled 16 hours flight, not your typical redeye flight to Europe or South America. Thankfully a cheerful team of professional flight attendants makes this inaugural flight truly special
Here is the link to the full photo album for those who don’t want to read this long report and there are 200+ pictures!
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/Ca...gural06112014J
June 11, 2014
AA 137 DFW-HKG Lv1245 Arr1805+1 Boeing 777-300ER N724AN/”7LH”
I flew into DFW from St Louis, so could not report on the any check-in festivities in the D check-in area. However I had a strong feeling that most activities happened in the gate area. I purposefully took an earlier flight from St Louis and here was the basic setup around 9:30am at today’s gate – D25. Just a few signs being set up, as well as podiums. Please note that both the Hong Kong special administrative region flag and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Flag were hoisted! Very politically correct thing to do!
N724AN was getting ready!
Strange artwork in the entrance of the DFW Terminal D Admiral Club
I then headed to the Admiral Club, which was fairly busy on this Wednesday morning. There was limited complimentary food and beverage options, just your basic hot beverages, breakfast pastries, and cereals.
Just want to write a quick report on American Airlines’ inaugural flight from Dallas Ft Worth to Hong Kong. June 11 marks an important day on DFW history, as American Airlines launches two nonstop services to Asia – Shanghai Pudong and Hong Kong. As a Hong Kong-er, I of course want to support American Airlines’ service to Hong Kong, and despite paying for a more expensive D fare and no getting the upgrade to F, it is still a historical flight. The flight itself was mostly good but American definitely needs to step up its catering games in business class, and there are just simply not enough food – meals and snacks. It is sad to see American Airlines cutting back the snack station on its business class cabin, considered the 777-300ERs have just been around for a year. DFW-HKG is a scheduled 16 hours flight, not your typical redeye flight to Europe or South America. Thankfully a cheerful team of professional flight attendants makes this inaugural flight truly special
Here is the link to the full photo album for those who don’t want to read this long report and there are 200+ pictures!
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/Ca...gural06112014J
June 11, 2014
AA 137 DFW-HKG Lv1245 Arr1805+1 Boeing 777-300ER N724AN/”7LH”
I flew into DFW from St Louis, so could not report on the any check-in festivities in the D check-in area. However I had a strong feeling that most activities happened in the gate area. I purposefully took an earlier flight from St Louis and here was the basic setup around 9:30am at today’s gate – D25. Just a few signs being set up, as well as podiums. Please note that both the Hong Kong special administrative region flag and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Flag were hoisted! Very politically correct thing to do!
N724AN was getting ready!
Strange artwork in the entrance of the DFW Terminal D Admiral Club
I then headed to the Admiral Club, which was fairly busy on this Wednesday morning. There was limited complimentary food and beverage options, just your basic hot beverages, breakfast pastries, and cereals.
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