Originally Posted by
Sixth Freedom
Take the 18.30 departure to HKG and get a good six hours of champagne and good food on the way and then take the day flight back and get 13 hours of champagne and other delights.
As a regular on this route for over 3.5 years now, I can advise from experience that, no, you should
never go on the 18.30 flight (CX250)! Same goes for the 23:55 departure from HKG (CX251).
The LHR based crew are awful. All three other flights serviced by the HKG based crew are fine.
If you like daytime flights, go for CX252 from LHR and CX253 from HKG. My preferred departures are CX252 and CX255 as I have found that I could better manage jetlag on these flights.
If anyone's interested, I have listed below the aircraft rotations:
CX251/CX250 (74A)
CX255/CX252 (74A)
CX257/CX256 (74A/34B, to go 77A daily from May)
CX253/CX254 (74A)
74A = 747-400 (3-class)
77A = 777-300ER (3-class)
34B = 340-300 (2-class)
Before anyone asks, all aircraft have the new long haul products.
