Hi,
Bought a .br to KUL over Easter for a trip away, and looking for interesting places to connect to from there (bit over KUL as a destination). Thinking of Taiwan based on a recommendation here and some Googling. CX offer some attractive fares, but I would like some advice regarding connections on the way home.
Routing would be TPE / xHKG / xKUL / MEL. The transit in KUL would be unprotected (on separate tickets). Need to be at work the next day. Missing the flight would be a minor disaster.
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]TPE[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]HKG[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]KUL[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]MEL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]06:10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]arr 07:50 dep 08:40
(50min)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]arr 12:25 dep 15:30
(3hr 5min)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]01:50+1[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
TPE / HKG would be on CX463, HKG / KUL on CX723. Flightstats shows that TPE / HKG has an average delay of 4min with std dev of 5min, HKG / KUL average delay of 16 min with a std dev of 16 min. MCT in KUL is 60 minutes.
A two std dev delay on HKG / KUL would cut the connection time to 2 hours 17 minutes. I think this is reasonably safe, but looking for any advice here as to whether there are issues I haven't thought of (or if I'm just overthinking it!
).
Also, does anyone have any experiences or troubles interlining ex-TPE? Research has told me that CX and EK have an interlining agreement, so it should be ok...
Bought a .br to KUL over Easter for a trip away, and looking for interesting places to connect to from there (bit over KUL as a destination). Thinking of Taiwan based on a recommendation here and some Googling. CX offer some attractive fares, but I would like some advice regarding connections on the way home.
Routing would be TPE / xHKG / xKUL / MEL. The transit in KUL would be unprotected (on separate tickets). Need to be at work the next day. Missing the flight would be a minor disaster.
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]TPE[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]HKG[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]KUL[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]MEL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]06:10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]arr 07:50 dep 08:40
(50min)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]arr 12:25 dep 15:30
(3hr 5min)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]01:50+1[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
TPE / HKG would be on CX463, HKG / KUL on CX723. Flightstats shows that TPE / HKG has an average delay of 4min with std dev of 5min, HKG / KUL average delay of 16 min with a std dev of 16 min. MCT in KUL is 60 minutes.
A two std dev delay on HKG / KUL would cut the connection time to 2 hours 17 minutes. I think this is reasonably safe, but looking for any advice here as to whether there are issues I haven't thought of (or if I'm just overthinking it!
). Also, does anyone have any experiences or troubles interlining ex-TPE? Research has told me that CX and EK have an interlining agreement, so it should be ok...
