‘splain this one to me….

I was awaiting this month’s CNN Business Traveller episode with much anticipation, in particular because Richard Quest was in Hong Kong filming a segment for the show and was staying at the same hotel as us. More on that later (and you were wondering why the title of my trip report is “Quest to Istanbul and Hong Kong”).

Anyway, instead of appreciating the show at-large for being awesome, I’m hung up on one minor detail which is driving me crazy. In the first segment of this month’s show (“Best of Hong Kong”), Richard is shown flying from London to Hong Kong.  At 7:24 there’s a pretty clear cabin shot, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what airline he’s flying. Yeah, he’s wearing a British Airways First Class shirt, but it looks to me like he’s flying business. It doesn’t look like Air New Zealand, British Airways, Qantas, or Virgin Atlantic, though, and those are the only airlines that fly that route nonstop (as far as I know, at least). Take a look at 7:24 in the first segment and see if you can figure out what airline he’s flying. What’s confusing me just as much is what that thing is in front of him. Is it the door, or what?

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Dan Guest

Send him a PM. He's one of us!

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Richard Quest Guest

OK - here is how I did it. LHR-FRA-HKG on, yup, LH HKG-ICN-JFk of OZ EWR-LHR on CO I was going to do it all on a RTW ticket but because there were only 2 stops it was not cost effective (the cheapest was around £4k.) Instead, wait for it, I bought three ONE way J tickets. Believe me it was much cheaper. Less than £3.5k Hope that helps. Richard Quest [email protected]

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lucky New Member

Ah, interesting. I was thinking it was Lufty too, but that seemed too obvious. When he flew from Hong Kong to New York later in the episode, he clearly stated he went via Seoul, while here he said he flew London to Hong Kong, without mentioning a connection. The economy must be hitting CNN hard. First slanted flat seats via Frankfurt on Lufthansa, and then flying Continental BusinessFirst on a 757 from New York to London.... ouch! :D

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sj sh Guest

I agree, clearly lufty.

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ptahcha Gold

The shot looks like a LH C to me as well. Possibly 2 separate shots spliced together. Just like the Amazing Race, where a United boarding pass spits out from the printer regardless of whatever airline they are flying at the time.

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