In mid-August Hong Kong Airlines published some incredibly low business class fares between the US and Asia, which they'll be honoring (and they announced this in the most impressive way possible). So I know many of you will be flying the airline in the coming weeks and months, and therefore might be interested in this…
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Any idea when additional A350s will deliver? I'm interested in whether these newbies are going to service the SFO-HKG route at some point.
John s is right. Additionally you'll be happy to hear that these A350s have air nozzles at all seats. Was a pleasant surprise for me!
hey Alvin, did you take the hkg-bkk route? did you by chance see any infants in business class?
Does it seem like I will be on the new a350 for LAX to HKG flight in early October, flight 69?
@Alvin (and others)
Sounds like you might have some special insights into HK airlines. Wonder if you could speculate on something for me.
I was one of the lucky people who was able to purchase some of those $600 tickets in business class to Bangkok (departing9/13)
I purchased tickets for myself my wife and my infant son (seat not lap).
Afterwords I went onto the Hong Kong airlines website and saw that infants are not allowed in the business cabin of the a350.
I called Expedia which contacted Hong Kong airlines which said it was OK.
I also contacted Hong Kong airlines by phone and chat and was assured that it was OK as well.
However last week I received a call from Hong Kong Airlines telling me that infants were not allowed into the business cabin.
Out of an abundance of caution I was able to convince a family member to fly in coach and I purchased my son a second infant ticket in coach, but I am really hoping that they will just let myself my wife and son into the business class cabin.
Any insight or educated guess into how best to proceed or how this might play out would be most appreciated.
@Jan - Given that HX only has one daily flight out of LAX, you will most likely be on the new plane.
@Luis - Not necessarily. They have only gotten one of those so far and the flight time is 15 hours there and 13.5 back plus turnaround time. So not enough to use their single reverse herringbone A350 plane every day. I'm guessing they will probably use the new one for LAX-HKG-BKK and back again. So if I am right your chances are 1 in 3 to get the new one.
The new seats look great! Is there any information on possible future routes for the airline, because they are getting a lot of new aircraft, but do not have many routes announced. I was wondering if we might see further expansion for them in the USA to take on CX.
For my personal situation, I prefer the old seats. I just flew HX J last month HKG-LAX with my family (spouse & 6 year old child). The current set up is very good for having a small child, as in the "honeymoon" seat it was easy to manage our child without having to leave my seat. We previously had flown AA, and their (comfortable) seats were a pain, as either I have to walk around the cabin or have a seat across the aisle and always get up.
Totally get why they switched (Business traveler preference), but from a family perspective the prior seats are much better.
If/when they partner and get positioning links then they will become a major player.
Not USA, but they have been flying out of YVR for quite a while.
The tail number for the new A350 is B-LGE. For HKG-LAX route, they use B-LG(ABCDE)...I guess we only have a 20% chance to fly the new aircraft.
@ TomM -- They use the "International Lounge" https://onemileatatime.com/los-angeles-international-lounge-lax-review/
Got to fly B-LGE on its first trip from LAX to HKG. Simply awsome, both hard and soft. Just finished my RT on HX.
Got the old style staggered on the return. (Position of fixed TV means no knee room when reclined).
Tried 2 configurations of regional on connecting flights. So 4 versions of HX J class in total for $577. It was a decent airline overall
We just flew these seats from LAX to HKG, and HKG to LAX. On the flight from LAX in my family of 4 we had 2 seats where the IFE volume did not work. In addition, there was a woman behind one of our seats who didn't have volume on her IFE. The flight was full so we couldn't move to a working seat.
On the flight from HKG to LAX there was 1 seat in my party that didn't recline, and another seat that did not recline, and one other seat where the IFE volume didn't work, luckily this flight wasn't full so I was able to move my non-reclining seat to a working seat.