Later, of course, we would see many other people with much larger bags getting on the plane. We are flying on China Air, the Taiwanese national airline. Aboard the plane, some things are nicer than our domestic airlines, and some things are just plain weird. The flight attendants are all incredibly friendly and well coifed . We were offered hot towels, a pack of playing cards, and disposable slippers before departure.
Every seat has foot rests.
No bottled water is available, but they do have cherry brandy. The in-flight magazine is in Chinese, with only a few pages in English. The in flight movies were announced over the intercom, but were unrecognizable and will most likely be in Chinese as well. Over 24 hours total travel time door to door. We lost Sunday crossing the international dateline and it's now Monday morning here.