China Northeastern Airlines Safety Concerns, Beware!
Flew on Feb. 19th on China Northeastern (NS) Changsha CSX to Shenyang SHE. NS is a start up Chinese LoCo operating currently 1 A 319 out of Shenyang.
Flight was packed and we had a second CC deadheading back to SHE.
Row 1 directly behind bulkhead seat C and D were reserved for deadheads, who piled up their enormous amount of bags and cartons on and before seats B and E, locking two PAX in seats A and F.
Climb out showed a constant struggle of flight deck with engine controls, drove the plane like a Chinese cab driver from full power to idle to full power.
Worst was safety attidude of cabin crew, who had filled first six overhead bins with their personal luggage. Reaching cruising altitude CC pulled out some more bags out of front lav and stored it right at the front exit doors. Just before going into final they all got their bags out of the overhead bins and piled them up before the right front exit!
I could not complain as their English skills were virtually non existant. NS Ground staff with some English contacted later was not interested at all!
Not surprisingly half of the passengers got up and opened overhead bins when the main gear barely had touched the runway and we were still doing around 80 - 90 kn. Again cabin crew was not intervening .
Way to go until I will fly them again!
Frank
Last edited by fendant; 20th Feb 2008 at 16:05.