TRIP REPORT | China Airlines (Economy) | San Francisco to Taipei | Boeing 777-300ER 

My wife and I are going on this fligjt in November and looking forward to it! SFO-TPE-MNL

🧐Since "China Airlines (CI)", a Taipei-based Taiwanese airline, is abbreviated to "China Air" in the video (not commonly used), this may lead to confusion with "Air China (CA)", a Beijing-based mainland Chinese airline. The two are totally different in terms of flight service, in-flight entertainment, food, interior design, etc. China Airlines is way better than Air China from my experience and many YT flight reports. Just in case ppl will get confused.

I was just in Bali, Indonesia about a month ago (Feb 2024) and one of the planes I took to get there was China Airlines. Had to go from San Francisco to Taiwan. It was one of the BEST flights I took, though it was long (as expected).

Thanks for the review! I’ll be flying CA towards the end of November, LAX to Chiangmai through Taiwan. Last year, I flew EVA Air the same route, so it will be interesting comparing the two carriers economy flights. I’m flying by myself, and with EVA, i waited until check in at 48 hours before departure to get aisle seat without paying ing for it. I’ll see what happens this time. One of the side affects of a cancer treating drug that I take is that everything tastes bland or bad, so I’ll hope for the best for dinner and take the geeks for breakfast. I’ll take my Bose headphones and drink plenty of water to stay hydrated. I’m more tired from the cancer drugs, so I hope that means that I get a few hours sleep. If I don’t, I have a house in Chiangmai, so I can crash immediately. I’m sure that as long as I don’t get a middle seat, I’ll be a happy camper.

Great review onboard China Airlines! I love the design of their cabin interior of their newer fleet. It looks so zen :) Will love to try them out someday to see how they compare to other Taiwanese carriers :D

I flew with them with my dog and I love this airline. They took good care of my dog. Jfk-tpe-cebu

As a member of China Airlines and Taiwanese, I am really proud of that !!!

Thanks for the awesome video. I will be taking the same flight as you and transferring to Bangkok afterwards. I have never taken a flight so late before. I’m glad the flight went smoothly.

You could have accessed the Virgin Clubhouse or Golden Gate lounge with your priority pass at SFO, it was in the same terminal

It's now $70 to select an economy seat on this flight.

Great video. Question: Why were you not allowed to store personal bags underneath the aisle seat?

I’m taking this exact flight on Friday

Very helpful video since it will be our first time transferring through SFO in about 2 weeks. Question- Did you have to rechecked your bags or not before going to the other terminal?

Thank you so much for uploading the video 😊❤ and what is your next flight video?

that is cool how they let your gate check your carry on for free. Not many Chinese airlines are forward-thinking like that.

I fly CI every summer from sfo to visit family in Taiwan, and I can definitely say their lounge in sfo is just not good at all. if you get the chance, try one of the CI lounges in Taipei, they're much better overall. other than that, I've always had amazing experiences with CI

Awesome 👍

From AeroRoutes: China Airlines this week filed service increase on Taipei Taoyuan - San Francisco route for Northern summer 2024 season. From 31MAR24, the Skyteam member will operate 10 weekly flights, instead of previously filed 7 weekly. The airline has been operating up to 9 weekly flights since Northern summer 2023 season. Following schedule is effective 31MAR24 - 30JUN24. CI016 TPE2235 - 1900SFO 359 357 CI004 TPE2330 - 1955SFO 77W D CI015 SFO0010 - 0440+1TPE 359 146 CI003 SFO0105 - 0525+1TPE 77W D

So theres no online check in for united states customer since i tried to look up my bookins

Great video! Question - do you use a gimbal or just hand hold your phone?

Thanks for your video. Can you use Bluetooth head phones on their TV screen?

0:37 is that picture in 2006 at sfo?

Great review! I am going in a few months with a friend. How do you ensure seating together? Recommendation

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Awesome Video! Was there a reason why you had to go to the ticket counter for China Airlines? I'm flying Delta into SFO and connecting to this same flight to Taipei, and I was going to load up my carry on because I figured there's no way they should know (Bags will be checked from Delta all the way to TPE and Delta says they will give me a boarding pass all the way to TPE). Did they not give you a boarding pass for the China Airlines flight when you checked in for your Alaska flight? Just trying to figure out why, don't want to screw myself with overloading my carry on if somehow we're forced to check in for some reason at the China Airlines counter there in SFO. Thanks for the help!

What other option flights on other airlines where there from SFO TO Taipei? You would recommend?

In order to get a better idea about comfort and seat pitch could you please give your height?

Also what if you dont choose your seat so that you can’t pay extra but you are travelling with someone, are you guys going to be separated or not?

Taiwan best airline CI

Is it possible to bring my own water bottle with water inside? Or there is a limit for it?

First @thetripreporter!

China airlines 777-300er. seat pitch is 39 inches. The width is 19 inches. Better the EVA.

I have flight coming up from San Francisco to Taipei n then connecting to bangkok . I have only an hour transit at Taipei will it enough time for me to catch a flight to Bangkok ?

I can never afford China Airlines even flying from the U.S. to Taiwan. Had to fly United.

I’m afraid flying out with this china airline, I have been reading about the history of this airline. So many fatal accident crashes and very concerned for safety do to engine problems. I’m the past 30 to 40 years and year 2022.

Can you choose seat in the booking process?

I think it’s poor that they have no Bollywood movies.

The guy sitting next to you and the male FA are very handsome

China airlines is getting greedy. 17" seat width for a 15 hours flight?

i have f,own with china airlines and xiamen arillines economy and wow ch9ina airlines was cheape rnad way better than xiamen, xiamenr arilnes only offer wifi for business class wich sux s such a lonf triop with no wife is terrible

Everything on the flight looked average. I did not see anything that I thought was outstanding or set China Airlines apart from any other airline. There was one huge annoyance for me...when I am on the window, I like to control the window shade. I do not like other passengers or aircrew telling me what position in which it must be. That alone would make me seek another airline for the journey. You book a window seat, you should own the window shade, especially if you paid any kind of fee for it.

Very helpful video since it will be our first time transferring through SFO in about 2 weeks. Question- Did you have to rechecked your bags or not before going to the other terminal?