Hainan Airlines

[Stone]

Has anyone tried Hainan Airlines the flight between US mainland and China? How was your experience and can you select a seat when you book a flight on its website directly? Their price appears fairly competitive.

[warpedbored]

Never flown them I do want to say it's nice to see you again. What have you been up to?

[Stone]

Well, I have been fairly busy at work lately and my wife has fully settled in. I found during the past several years, everyhing has been going up quite a bit especially food prices. But airline ticket prices to China remains fairly competitive with the new players (like Hainan Airlines) coming in and creating competitions. I use United Airlines most of the time but am thinking of switching.

[Zhou Zhou]

I have used Continental/United for years and have used most of my accumulated miles on the last trip. So I'm shopping now for a new airline, too.

[Ryan H]

I have flown Hainan on all of my trips to/from China (they fly nonstop between Seattle and Beijing).

• Overall, my experience has been good.
• When I bought the tickets, I wasn't able to select seats specific seats. When I checked in for flights from Seattle, staff did ask me for a preference. It has been 3 years since I purchased a ticket directly from them so things may be different when booking through the website now.

Edited September 27, 2014 by Ryan H (see edit history)