So don’t expect the latest Netflix specials, but if this is your first time travelling Air China the entertainment options make for a refreshing change. I indulged in a Fast & Furious binge, followed up by Four Weddings & A Funeral.

I don’t know if this is because I am sick of the same old up to date selection offered up by Qantas, Emirates and so forth, but Air China was the authentic meat pie to the more expensive airline’s overcooked souffle. The movie selection was refreshingly good That said, I am amoebic skinny, so I can imagine someone with, as Westfield once indelicately put it, a “ghetto booty,” would endure a tight squeeze (though no more so than they would with RyanAir and co). The seats are actually… not too badĬonsidering Air China is known as a ghetto on wings (cheers, Tripadvisor’s Most Hysterical), the seats weren’t actually that cramped.

So: here’s what it’s really like to spend 11 hours on one of the ‘ dodgiest‘ airlines in the Asia-Pacific, from the depths of economy.