Shanghai is a major market for Cathay Pacific, as they often operate over a dozen flights from there to Hong Kong, given how connected the cities are. Up until now Cathay Pacific has had a rather lackluster lounge at the airport, which I’ve reviewed…
While Cathay Pacific is generally a well regarded airline, I don't find their business class product to be amazing. While their reverse herringbone seats in long haul business class were innovative when first introduced, they've become the industry standard…
Cathay Pacific is becoming the third airline in the past few months to scale back first class. Just a few months ago Korean Air announced that they'd cut first class on dozens of routes, while Asiana announced that they'd eliminate first class altogether.…
For those of you not familiar with Amex Offers, it’s a program available through most Amex cards, where different cards are eligible for different savings and bonus offers. In many cases the offers can be huge, and more than offset the annual fee on…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Cathay Pacific's rebranding. Cathay Pacific's previous slogan was "Life Well Travelled," but they changed it to "Move Beyond." For a variety of reasons I don't like the rebranding, as they go from one of my favorite…
Here's a shocking and sad story that's only making headlines months after the actual occurrence. On October 28, 2018, Ming Kou Chan (a Stanford scholar) was scheduled to fly Cathay Pacific from San Francisco to Hong Kong, and was using the Cathay Pacific…
Airlines sure do love spending money on a rebranding, even if it's not necessary. Cathay Pacific has revealed the details of a brand refresh, which includes the introduction of a new slogan -- "Move Beyond." Here are a few videos with the new slogan:…
I'm generally a big fan of Cathay Pacific, though there are some areas in which they've historically lagged. One of those areas is wifi. Cathay Pacific has offered wifi on their A350s since they started taking delivery of them a couple of years back.…
While Emirates is cracking down on passengers who are removing items from planes, Cathay Pacific is now reportedly doing the same for employees. Danny Lee at the South China Morning Post reports that Cathay Pacific is newly cracking down on flight attendants…
At the beginning of March I wrote about how Cathay Pacific confirmed that they were in talks to acquire HK Express from HNA Group. Then just a couple of days ago it became clear that an announcement was imminent, and now it has been made. Cathay Pacific…
Alaska Mileage Plan is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs, given their unique array of airline partners, combined with their generous mileage earning rates. It's an exciting year for transpacific flights out of Seattle, as next month both Cathay…
At the moment, the US American Express Membership Rewards seems to have a transfer bonus for Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, which may very well be targeted. All the accounts I manage offer a bonus of 30%, though it's possible that other accounts don't. When…
Cathay Pacific is an airline that has been trying to turn themselves around, after a rough 2016 and 2017. In those two years the airline lost significant amounts of money (~73 million USD and ~160 million USD, respectively), despite historically being…
Cathay Pacific is unique among airlines in that they have quite a few foreign crew bases (having a couple of foreign bases isn't unusual, but Cathay Pacific has a lot). While many Cathay Pacific pilots and flight attendants are based in Hong Kong, they…
I'm a big fan of airlines that introduce unique lounge amenities, whatever form they might come in. This is true whether we're talking about the bedrooms in the Qatar Airways Al Safwa Lounge... Or the gym in the Etihad Airways First Class Lounge...
Last night I wrote about some incredible first class fares that Cathay Pacific published between Portugal and Hong Kong. You could fly from either Lisbon or Porto to Hong Kong via London (or in some cases other gateways) for $1,500 one-way. The intra-Europe…
These fares aren't quite as good as the first and business class fares we saw recently from Vietnam to North America a couple of weeks ago, but this is otherwise the best Cathay Pacific first class fare that I've seen in years. Cathay Pacific has $1,500…
Happy New Year all -- by now you will have seen the news that Cathay Pacific has decided to honour their 'special' deeply discounted business and first class fares between Vietnam and North America. That means there will be plenty of you travelling on…
On New Year's Eve/New Year's Day (depending on where in the world you are), Cathay Pacific had some insanely low premium cabin fares for travel originating in Vietnam. For example, from Vietnam to the US, you could fly roundtrip in business class for…
Yesterday evening I wrote about how Cathay Pacific published some insanely low first and business class fares for travel originating in Vietnam. For example, from Vietnam to the US, you could fly roundtrip in business class for under $700, or roundtrip…
Earlier I wrote about the amazing Cathay Pacific business class fares from Vietnam to North America. Well, it appears it gets even better. You can fly roundtrip first class for only marginally more. You can fly from Hanoi to Vancouver for just $988 roundtrip.
