Overall ImpressionĬhina Southern definitely offers a competitive economy-class experience for those traveling to and from Asia. Overall, I'd say China Southern checked all necessary boxes in this category.

Once in the air, the crew was clearly focused on delivering an efficient and quick service, which to me, is the most important factor in the economy-class experience. I was welcomed on board with warm smiles and offered assistance finding my seat or stowing my carry-on. I lucked out with phenomenal service when flying business class with China Southern earlier in the summer, and for the most part, I found these flight attendants equally pleasant.

When flying economy, it's typically harder to have meaningful interactions with the flight attendants, since they're charged with serving a much larger crowd. Then, all we needed was a flight between Dubai and Guangzhou, and since I had already flown China Southern in business earlier this summer and was going to try it in first class, we figured that I might as well fly it in economy as well.

Since we were booking this whole trip at the last minute, we were looking at cash fares, and Emirates was offering solid prices on its flights between New York and Dubai via Milan. While there are plenty of flights every day between the US and Mainland China, we figured we'd take the long way so I could review an additional product. As we were arranging the details of my final trip as TPG's Reviews intern this summer, we were able to find award availability again on China Southern, though this time in first class, between Guangzhou and Los Angeles (review coming soon!), so once we locked that in, we had to figure out how I was going to get to China in order to catch that flight to the US. View the current offers here.Įarlier in the summer, I got the chance to fly with China Southern on its brand-new 787 Dreamliner in business class and had a great flight. Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available.

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