Cathay Pacific announced some additional frequencies on a couple of their US routes today, which is especially exciting for those looking to redeem miles. Los Angeles gets a fourth daily flight As of June 1, 2014, Cathay Pacific will be adding a fourth daily flight between Hong Kong and Los Angeles, which will operate with…
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This is crazy. I am so jealous. Why not from SFO? Do they have a lot of traffic from LA
@ caveman -- While San Francisco is a big market for them, keep in mind they don't a partner airline hub there, so most of the traffic in San Francisco is actually originating there. Meanwhile they have plenty of feed from American on their Los Angeles flights, given that many people are connecting.
Ben-"The schedule on this one is awesome since it’s a redeye ex-Chicago." Why is eating dinner at 2:15 am awesome!
Also, arriving from Hong Kong to Chicago at 8:20 pm means that many of us won't be able to catch connecting flts and will probably have to overnight in Chicago. I wish this flt would arrive earlier.
Cathay currently has four cabin service out of O'Hare - are they pulling those aircraft in favor of three cabin with only J and no F?
@ John -- Eating dinner at 2:15AM isn't awesome, but sleeping in a fully flat bed on a flight without wifi at 2:15AM is. 😉
If you want to catch a connection there's always still the daytime flight. This flight is great for those that want to spend part of their day in Hong Kong, because with the other frequency the day is kind of "wasted" on both ends.
@ Ben -- The daily service will continue to be operated by a four cabin plane, it's the additional three frequencies that will be operated by a three cabin plane.
These flights make the connection on to the MLE flight pretty efficient for LAX based flyers.
CX also recently added flights to EWR! Wow! Do you know whether they're all new planes for these additional flights or are they cutting back flights on other routes?
@ Joey -- I believe they're still taking delivery of some 777-300ERs. Don't believe they're eliminating any routes.
@ Mr. Cool -- In miles? Your best bet is going to be American, which charges 55,000 miles one-way in business class and 67,500 miles one-way in first class.
Just flew CX 2 days ago HKG LHR in 1K! Love me some CX! Thanks for the heads up on LAX 🙂
Lucky, As always thanks for being the first to give us this heads up (as with the new Etihad flights to LAX starting next June). This is awesome news for flyers from LAX, like myself. Thank you!
Lucky, Thanks for the useful information.
I was looking for information on whether the economy class seats on HKG-LAX flights are the "new economy class" seats. I have heard from friends who traveled more than a year ago that the seats are not comfortable. Thank you !!