Cathay to cut worldwide capacity by 30% [Now 96%]

[Chicken]

Does anyone have any first hand or second hand...or n-th hand experience on what it's like flying Cathay to HK from AU at the moment?

What would you like to know? My father flew J class SYD HKG on June 08

 

[focusedbear]

What would you like to know? My father flew J class SYD HKG on June 08

I suppose I'm just curious how busy/full the flight is. I may have to fly up soon - hotel availability willing.

 

[Chicken]

I suppose I'm just curious how busy/full the flight is. I may have to fly up soon - hotel availability willing.

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I actually used QF classic award to claim that seat on CX metal. Award seat availability via QF wasn't good at that stage, but then again, CX wasn't flying SYD > HKG daily, and having said that, I did find a seat using Award Flight Assist, so

My father said that the J cabin was only about 1/3 full.

Oh, I remember there was a person in front of us in SYD check in, I heard that person was boarding our flight to Bangkak. Flying CX to BKK. So brave

 

[focusedbear]

Thanks for the feedback (and advertisement). Just wondering if I fly Y and hope I get a row to myself.

It seems to be a cough shoot as to whether the route is suspended/a flight is found/a hotel room can be booked. Though not in that order.

 

[Chicken]

Thanks for the feedback (and advertisement). Just wondering if I fly Y and hope I get a row to myself.

It seems to be a cough shoot as to whether the route is suspended/a flight is found/a hotel room can be booked. Though not in that order.

- There is hardly any suspension by the government now (I don't know if you have signed up to any Facebook group for travelling to Hong Kong).
- I searched CX direct SYD > HKG on their web site just now, there are seats daily, you can even fly out tomorrow night, or even tonight if you want, Y seats are all around the AUD $1500 mark, with business around $2200 mark.
- Hotels are not that hard to book if you book 1 month in advance (his quarantine hotel was booked on 10/5 for landing on 9/6, so let's say one month in advance)
So you should not have any problem with flying to Hong Kong from Australia.

 

[focusedbear]

That's great. Sounds like I have to allow myself a month to line things up.

I know about the HK Hotel Quarantine Support Group on Facebook but I'm a rare breed that doesn't use it. I'll have to set up a phantom account to participate

 

[Chicken]

That's great. Sounds like I have to allow myself a month to line things up.

I know about the HK Hotel Quarantine Support Group on Facebook but I'm a rare breed that doesn't use it. I'll have to set up a phantom account to participate

I have given you the link to track flight bans, so that front is not much of an issue anymore.

The most useful thing with Facebook group is to check the feedbacks on hotels. There is a bunch of hotels within a major large chain where people have been asked to provide copies of their credit cards, then people started getting fraudulent charges. There are also hotels which are not the cheapest hotels but the meals they provided were so disguesting that people ended up ordering Uber for every meal. You would want to use Facebook to avoid those hotels. Oh, then there are hotels which refuse to change date or refund when your flight gets cancelled while others do unconditionally, completely going back on their words (whether in T&C or written promises via e-mail). The hotel is the dodgiest part.

 

[focusedbear]

Flight suspensions have been, well, suspended...

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[tomlee1986]

Flight suspensions have been, well, suspended...

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12ft.io

suspended until "further notice"

政府加強抵港人士檢測安排和暫緩個別航線「熔斷機制」

政府今日（七月七日）公布，經初步檢視數據和科學分析，認為持續加強為抵港人士進行更頻密的核酸檢測會更有效阻斷輸入個案，因此決定由即日（七月七日）起暫緩個別航線「熔斷機制」，直至另行通...

www.info.gov.hk

(Official release - but in Chinese only)

 

[MJHoops]

I found this article interesting on the financial prospects of CX. Not as dire as I had thought.

I’ve been checking CX178 every few days, and while it does not fly much, it seems to fly on time every time! I can see last 4 flights on FR24