About a month ago I wrote about the rumor that Cathay Pacific was expected to announce flights to Cape Town soon. This was per the always reliable Danny Lee at the South China Morning Post. As expected, this rumor has now been confirmed. Cathay Pacific has announced that they'll offer 3x weekly seasonal flights between…
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Lucky, I think you have a typo in the arrival time for the eastbound flight--should be 6:55am instead of 6:55pm.
Singapore Airlines used to go non-stop to Cape Town way back in the day, but at least they are increasing the frequencies to Cape Town to daily via Joburg.
Wouldn't it be nice if they started flying to SEA, fed by AS flights? Oh, well. One can dream..
Day Zero has been pushed back to July 9th.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/africa/cape-town-water-day-zero.html
Cape Town day zero has moved to July 9th, as of two days ago.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/africa/cape-town-water-day-zero.html
The CPT water crisis has actually been improving -- as of now the water won't run out until July (and since the rainy season usually starts in April or May, that likely means the water won't run out at all): http://coct.co/water-dashboard/
Why is the timing strange? Cathay should write us off because of a temporary water crisis? Sigh. Day zero is now July and long term solutions are in progress.
The water shortage is not that bad too be honest, tourist have nothing to worry about...
-Cape Town Resident
Weird choice of choosing Cape Town from so many other places. They are in water shortage problem now, do they really want more tourists to go and use more water. I don’t think tourists will have conserve and save water in their mind when they are on vacation.
I have an HKG->JNB leg booked in late November. Looking forward to seeing if I can change it directly to CPT.
SA used flying JNB-TPE but not anymore due to politics.
BTW NZ just announced flying AKL-TPE since Nov 1st, 2018.
Is the only way to book Cathay Award tickets with MileagePlan by calling in?
What is a good site to check availability since alaskas website doesnt show any?
@ Huntington -- Correct, you have to call to book. You can use BA's site to search for availability, but Alaska sometimes only sees a subset of that availability.
I visited Cape Town in January. Water shortages were well publicised but didn’t cause any issues. Fabulous city and surroundings, highly recommend visiting.
I love CPT, been there numerous times both via Europe & via JNB direct from the US. So this routining is awesome, so please let's us know when award space becomes available. Thanks!!
Use AS to connect to Cathay in YVR - easier than SEA. Other options are SFO and LAX on west coast.
Water shortage is real. We have been here for three months and are trying to meet the requirement of 50 liters per person per day. That's about 12.5 US gallons. It is surprising how many people are ignoring the shortage and claiming it is a hoax.
The water shortage has been coming for the last 4 years at least. Politicians don't believe that it might be permanent so nothing of value has been done (ie: desalination plants). One wet winter will not solve the problem. It's like Vegas - too many people and not enough water.
But do not despair - it is only the Western Cape that is water short. Just a short distance away is Hermanus (good for whale watching and pinot noir) where there is no water shortage at all.
As I have written before - we are staying in a house that is relatively new. ONE toilet flush is 9 liters of water (some are up to 15 liters or more). Your daily water ration is just less than 6 toilet flushes. The could make a huge difference if they encouraged everyone to replace the older water using toilets to some of the new ones that can be 3 liters or less.