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Cathay to cut more flights, pilots to suspend work-to-rule

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways said Friday it will further cut 3% of its total weekly schedule temporarily from Monday, affecting five destinations in Asia and North America.

Cathay Pacific Airways will temporarily reduce flight frequencies to five destinations as part of its ongoing review of its network. The changes take effect from October 22nd. The reduction of 14 flights per week represents approximately 3% of the total weekly schedule. The affected destinations are Los Angeles, Bangkok, Denpasar, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur.


Details of the flights to be suspended are as follows:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011019/laf052_1.html

So if Cx Ex LAX is down from 14 to 7 per week, which flight is operating the afternoon or night departure?

i think probably CX 882 (afternoon HKG departure) and CX 881 (night LAX departure) are the ones to stay...previously when frequency was cut from 14 to 11...it was CX 880 (night HKG departure) and CX 883 (afternoon LAX departure) which got cut...i expect they probably want to maintain the same daily schedule...so CX 882 and 881...

The afternoon flights have been cancelled and the late flight is full the day i wish to go. CX is offering a routing via YVR or the late night flight non stop the next day. Anyone know if the A-340 on the YVR-HKG will have the new first seats? ITN does show 1-2-1.

rich

From now on, CX 882 will depart daily from HKG on late afternoon, and arrive in LA at noon. Then the plane will stay in LA until midnight for CX 881 back to HKG.

I am not sure whether YVR's A340 gets the new first class, but judging from the itn's seat belt, I will say "yes."

Carfield

I was also just informed by my T/A that the earlier of the two daily flights from LHR (CX250) has been chopped, leaving only the 9:40pm departure. I have never flown on CX - that 250 on Nov 7th was to have been my first flight with them.

Given that I now have a 16 hour layover in London, instead of 12 (I'm connecting from Entebbe), is it worth sticking with CX, or should I move to BA and get out of LHR earlier??

OK, here's a dreamer's question for all the CX experts http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
I'm booked on an award ticket for first class going mke-ord-lax-hkg and then on to syd after a 4 day stay in hkg. My return ticket has the same routing only reversed, and I was booked on the late night flight from HKG to LAX that is now cancelled.
What are the odds of now being routed from HKG to LHR on CX with another couple days layover then taking AA LHR-ORD-MKE. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by crAAzy:
OK, here's a dreamer's question for all the CX experts http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
I'm booked on an award ticket for first class going mke-ord-lax-hkg and then on to syd after a 4 day stay in hkg. My return ticket has the same routing only reversed, and I was booked on the late night flight from HKG to LAX that is now cancelled.
What are the odds of now being routed from HKG to LHR on CX with another couple days layover then taking AA LHR-ORD-MKE. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif</font>

Cathay Pacific awards require that you fly transpac on CX in both directions. CX has a night flight back to SFO, CX 872, with times similar to the recently reduced CX880. Ask to be protected on the SFO trip, then take AA to ORD and MKE.

[This message has been edited by dfword (edited 10-23-2001).]

I LOVE AA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Cathay sees no staff cuts or jet delivery delays

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu-hkg16520&feed=reu&date=20011029&cat=INDUSTRY