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Verified Review | Ho Chi Minh City to Manila return via Guangzhou with China Southern. All flights on smaller, narrow body aircrafts with only 8-12 seats in business. International transfer in CAN is easier than in Beijing. Check-in in at all airports went smoothly - staff were polite, advisory, and correct. On these 4 flights only one small delay of 30 minutes which is bearable as it was early and clearly announced. China Southern Airlines regional flights are far from luxurious and not as pampering for passengers compared to their international/continental flights. Lounge provision worked well. 5 star hotel provided in Guangzhou (HJ Grand 15 Mins from Airport). In the narrowbody cabins, there were nice seats, but old business class style (recliners only). Food not very good and rated as mediocre - only 2 options given, despite they often claim a third option, which does not seem available if you order it. Only Chinese cuisine offered, which is not my favourite (greasy noodles, tasteless dim sum). Hot dishes were served in foils like economy class. No food nor drink menu cards were provided. No amenity kit provided, but given new slippers and a nice shoe-bag with shoe-horn. Newspapers given. As pre-departure drink only non-alcoholic beverages offered. Hot towels given. Onboard no champagne, only one white and one red-wine (French country wine, substandard). They ran out of beer and had only Yinjang beer onboard. FA cared well for passengers, though poor in English. IFE content was quite OK and easy to manoeuvre. Service shortened by putting on seat-belt signs far too much – thus, discontinued 40 minutes before landing and only started after 25 minutes airborne. Priority of luggage handling, check-in, boarding, lounge access, and transit, were all perfectly implemented and prioritised for premium cabin travellers. I noted that economy travellers were also well taken care of in transit. All in all the product is quite acceptable and the price was considerably lower than any other airline for this route except for Cebu pacific which I consider as an LCC; and Malaysia Airlines which have now gone dry on all domestic and regional flights. China Southern is a class or two higher compared to Air China regional business class which I travelled in a few months earlier. European “full-service-carrier” airlines are in general not better in business class than CZ, though CZ is not fully top notch.