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The Truth About Flying Domestic In China: There Are Some Interesting Similarities And Differences Versus The US

Dec 12, 2013, 23:31 IST

Nicholas CarlsonA couple weeks ago, I flew to Beijing on a Saturday to speak at conference.

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I'd never been to China or even Asia before, so I decided to use the opportunity to see some other parts of the other side of the world.

So, Monday morning, I woke up at 4:30 A.M. and headed to Beijing Capital airport (PEK) for an early morning flight 800 miles south to a city near Shanghai called Hangzhou.

To get there, I flew Hainan Airlines - a domestic carrier.

In many ways, the experience was just like flying a US carrier from New York to Chicago, also an 800 mile flight. But there were some key differences.

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