Cathay Pacific Refreshing Their Business Class Seat On The A350

Am I the only one who likes the older CX F seat more?

What. Are the 'old' and 'new' pictures reversed? The new ones look so dumpy.

@ Henry -- Nope!

i also agree i like the old one better... the new one seems too bland.
i've only seen pics tho, not in person.

I flew ORD-HKG with the new CX F seat about a month ago. Couldn't really tell the difference other than the "flower vase" on the wall that was never used.

You know, I just gotta love that not only is the CX J product darn good, it's *consistent*. I was looking at a routing from HKG to the US on JL in J because CX wasn't available on the day that I wanted. There's a 787 to BOS that looked good. Double checked on JL's website, the 787 has the new J but no F at all. Ok fine. Triple checked and found out that JL launched the 787 with an inferior product and then decided to change their mind. WTF?

Go for a ride in a CX premium cabin, and you know you're going to get taken care of in the air and on the ground in HKG.

Just avoid mid-morning short haul flights with CX. We recently flew CX J (there was no FC) from HKG to NRT, with a 9:30 am departure. After eating a small breakfast in the Wing, since we expected a full lunch on the plane, we discovered that despite the meal service beginning after 10 am, CX was only serving breakfast. There was dim sum, a very sad looking omelet, and teriyaki chicken. Well, apparently everyone wanted a real meal, so the chicken was long gone by the time they got to us. Oh, and no alcohol was offered either. After all, who would want champagne as early as noon, right?

JAL made up for it in their NRT FC Lounge, where they had Heidsieck Champagne, Remy Martin XO Excellence 🙂 , and a Sushi Chef making things to order. But what was CX thinking? A four hour Business Class flight, with just a small omelet and no alcohol. So much for their "the most consistent airline" rating. 🙁

Forgot to mention the old CX J hard product: recliner seats.....

Nope Abdel, I like the older CX F seat much more too (you are definitely not the only one.

I'm not all that impressed by CX's J product. There are better seats around now (and all direct aisle access seating in J is no longer a novelty), and I find CX's Business Food and Beverage underwhelming. From what I understand, the J seat refresh is not going to be a major change either, which just may not cut it given the benchmarks being set now. It's dangerous to rest on one's previous laurels in the airline game now.

@ Dan -- Very true about JAL, though for what it's worth it's actually the other way around. They started with angled business class seats and are now reconfiguring the planes with a new business class product.

Hi Lucky,

Do you mind to do a future post talking about all the ways to collect miles to redeem for CX flights?
Thanks,
JC

Lucky,
I think AUSBT did mention a little while ago that CX will have F on their A350-1000 and they plan on introducing a new F product since by then the existing product would've been a little old to compete

@ Jack -- Sure, I'll see what I can do. The best options are American and US Airways, though if I can add more value than that I will.

Don't expect any radical changes! It will be more of an "evolution" rather than a "revolution".

Also just for the record, CX has chosen Porsche to be onboard the design. SQ has selected BMW for their business class seats. So who wins between BMW and Porsche?! 😀 😛

Any info on routes for the new A350 planes?

@ Ken -- Nope, no routes have been announced yet.

@ Ken: no routes announced but I interviewed a CX exec earlier this week who said that upon its arrival in February 2015 the first A350-900 will "do some route proving on short-haul regional flights" before being tasked to open up corridors to new cities in Europe.

"We're looking at places like secondary European destinations, and there may well be existing destinations which we we decide to swap out (for the A350)."