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Post by Jkkw on Oct 3, 2014 13:21:05 GMT 1
As a side note: o row 4, but a row 13 That would be because in Chinese, the word for 4 sounds like the word for death and hence it deemed as unlucky unlike 13 which isn't unlucky for the Chinese. On a side note, the word for 8 sounds like luck and hence for Chinese speakers, 8 is a lucky number.
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Post by Baroque on Oct 3, 2014 14:34:28 GMT 1
I think it reads: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3...etc. instead of 11, 12, 13. The first number indicates the section of the cabin. Rows 1, 2, and 3 is probably the 0 section. You can also find appropriate reasons for having 8 in front of the upper deck rows, i.e. 81, 82... - Jkkw has mentioned it.
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Post by peter on Oct 3, 2014 16:24:28 GMT 1
I don't think the count is for 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. I the total picture row 8 is missing altogether. And on the upper deck they would be row 8.4 but not 8.8.... The numbers 4 and 8 are very important in China. If you check out seat maps you'll almost never find rows 4 or 8, specially on domestic aircraft. Nobody wants 4, everybody wants 8....
Also just look at aircraft designations. Boeing came up with 787-8 and 777X-8. There is only one reason for starting at dash-8 and not the old fashioned series 100: China. The 747 skipped series -500 to -700 to 747-8i, and look who got it's first one a few days ago! Last: Airbus did not skip A350 through A370 to A380-800 for nothing
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Post by Baroque on Oct 3, 2014 17:39:17 GMT 1
I don't think the count is for 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. I the total picture row 8 is missing altogether. And on the upper deck they would be row 8.4 but not 8.8....
I don't think I understand you there. I just looked through the rest of Air China's widebody seat maps on seatguru. It appears they have a numbering system where: - First Class rows are in single digits, none of which have more than 3 rows. So one cannot tell if the number 4/8 thing does apply here. - Lower deck Business Class rows are numbered 11 to (presumably not more than) 30, since at most they have 17. Upper deck Business Class on the 747s are numbered in the 80s. - Economy rows are numbered 31 to (Infinity? ). On Narrowbodies economy starts from 11. There were other reasons that made skipping to A380 make sense. Like being a 2X A340 for instance.
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Post by XWB on Oct 6, 2014 8:28:53 GMT 1
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Post by someone on Oct 6, 2014 21:11:06 GMT 1
I don't think the count is for 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. I the total picture row 8 is missing altogether. And on the upper deck they would be row 8.4 but not 8.8....
I don't think I understand you there. I just looked through the rest of Air China's widebody seat maps on seatguru. It appears they have a numbering system where: - First Class rows are in single digits, none of which have more than 3 rows. So one cannot tell if the number 4/8 thing does apply here. - Lower deck Business Class rows are numbered 11 to (presumably not more than) 30, since at most they have 17. Upper deck Business Class on the 747s are numbered in the 80s. - Economy rows are numbered 31 to (Infinity? ). On Narrowbodies economy starts from 11. There were other reasons that made skipping to A380 make sense. Like being a 2X A340 for instance. Other Asian carriers have a somewhat similar numbering system, although usually not out of sequence like here. On airlines like SQ and TG among other Frist calss is single digit, business starts at 11 and economy at 31
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Post by gennadius01 on Oct 13, 2014 17:41:49 GMT 1
It looks like Air China had a fairly extensive delivery celebration of their own in Beijing, before 1499 entered into revenue service. This article contains some nice shots of her from the outside as well as of the cabin product on the inside. It seems like they really enjoyed being able to show off the new plane!
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Post by Baroque on Oct 13, 2014 18:54:18 GMT 1
Nice perspective. Gives a good feel as to how looooooooooooong this aircraft is.
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Post by FabienA380 on Nov 14, 2014 21:34:03 GMT 1
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Post by gennadius01 on Nov 26, 2014 22:21:24 GMT 1
It seems that Air China is starting to advertise to SFO. The attached image was from SFGate.com, the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thanks to @sfcitizen over on twitter for the heads up about it. Attachments:
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