It really is one of the best business class lounges and visiting it always makes me happy. One of the best parts about departing on an international Star Alliance partner flight from LAX is that you get to use the brand new Star Alliance Lounge.

Air China First Class: Arrival at the Airport But even more surprisingly, they offered to give me a free Air China model airplane when I got to LAX! As you guys know, I just started a 1:200 collection (I have four now) and the Air China Boeing 777-300ER will be a nice addition to my collection. I appreciated them checking and reaching out to me.

What I meant by “tonight” was actually early tomorrow morning (1:40 AM) and thus they couldn’t find my itinerary. Without me asking them, the Air China Twitter team messaged me saying they had checked their flight roster on tonight’s flight, did not see my name on it and asked me to get in touch with them in case there was a problem. I told him I was flying Air China First Class tonight from Los Angeles and was hoping to get my hands on one also. On the day before my departure, I was chatting with another person on Twitter regarding Air China and he mentioned he had received a model airplane from them. But I did confirm my seat again (just to be sure) and saw that the second phone agent did in fact reserve my seat. Air China First class award tickets are booked in O and business class award tickets are booked in I so I did not qualify. Turns out, the limo service is restricted to passengers in F, A, C and D fare classes only. Since I was flying from LAX to Beijing, I gave them a call to see if I could book a limo ride to LAX. Fortunately, my reservation was fine and nothing happened.įrom their website, I saw Air China offered complimentary limo service for their first and business class customers if you were flying to/departing from Beijing Capital Airport. And I was watching my reservation like a hawk based on Matt’s blog post on Air China’s malicious cancellations.

Or at least, I thought she did but calling back a couple months later, I saw that my seat was not selected. The Air China phone agent did not have the strongest grasp of the English language but was able to select my window seat (2L) on the right side of the airplane.

A few weeks after I booked my ticket with United, I called Air China’s North American call center (located in Los Angeles) to select my seat. Like I said earlier, Air China releases a ton of award seats to their partner airlines and I had no problem finding award space on the dates I needed.

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