Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - CX flight load levels ex HKG. Is there a website for this?

I just wanted to know if anyone has flown HKG- LAX or SFO in the past couple of days. I'm trying to find the load levels for C and Y and I'm wanting to book the least crowded of the two cabins to avoid the flu.
Do any FTers know of a good site that has accurate load levels?
Thanks.

Trying saying exact same thing to the reservation, and it would be interesting to see what they say...

"Sir, Biz class if full, I suggest you choose to fly on cheaper Y cabin" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/rolleyes.gif

I would presume being in Biz cabin has less chance of encountering an infected pax. Also, it's more isolated.

If you are really worried, why not purchase C class, and upgrade to F?

Air is recirculated in the cabin.

It doesn't really matter what cabin you're sitting in (or whether you wear one of those masks), you'll be breathing the same recirculated air that everyone else in the whole airplane breathes.

My suggestion: Brink your own oxygen/air purification system if you're really worried.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LondonElite:
Air is recirculated in the cabin.

It doesn't really matter what cabin you're sitting in (or whether you wear one of those masks), you'll be breathing the same recirculated air that everyone else in the whole airplane breathes.

My suggestion: Brink your own oxygen/air purification system if you're really worried.</font>

That is a flippant suggestion to a serious inquiry.

I don't see why it's a flippant suggestion. I guess that you could get a breathing apparatus kit that would do the job for less than the fare difference between (discount) Y and J. Certainly you should be able to get a military specification NBC (nuclear biological chemical) respirator for much less than that.

You won't be able to eat or drink of course, and the StudioCX will be a bit wasted if you have to watch it through those glass windows, but you should be well protected.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CDG 1K:
I just wanted to know if anyone has flown HKG- LAX or SFO in the past couple of days. I'm trying to find the load levels for C and Y and I'm wanting to book the least crowded of the two cabins to avoid the flu.
Do any FTers know of a good site that has accurate load levels?
Thanks.</font>

Cabin was pretty Full when I flew in on CX872 HKG-SFO on 3/28. I was in the upper deck and there were only 2 open seats or so. Lower deck had a few open seats as well. Y seemed pretty occupied. F was more than 70% full. I would imagine that flights out of HKG to the US have been pretty full lately.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jkc22:
Cabin was pretty Full when I flew in on CX872 HKG-SFO on 3/28. I was in the upper deck and there were only 2 open seats or so. Lower deck had a few open seats as well. Y seemed pretty occupied. F was more than 70% full.
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Thank you jkc22! You still feeling ok I hope? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CDG 1K:
Thank you jkc22! You still feeling ok I hope? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>

I am feeling great. Thanks! I have not experienced any flu-like symptoms, nor any indications of me having contracted the virus causing SARS.

But then, I've only been back for five days. I guess it's too early to tell? I think at mid-20’s I stand quite a good chance surviving even if I contracted the virus. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I'm heading to Asia as usual every month from May thru August.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bp888:
That is a flippant suggestion to a serious inquiry.

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It's not flippant at all. It's the truth. Everyone inside the airplane breathes the same air. It's recirculated. A person in F is as likely to be infected as a person in row 74. You can wear a face mask if you want to, but don't think it's going to protect you from breathing in what someone next to you coughs out.

This reminds me of the panic a few weeks ago when, in various parts of the world, people were advised to buy non-perishable foods and duct-tape their windows as a precaution against possible chemical/biological attacks.

Did it not occur to anyone that, in the absense of an alternate (and uncontaminated) air supply, no matter how hermetically sealed their basements were, they were still breathing the same air as everyone else?

Less panic, more common sense.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LondonElite:
It's recirculated. A person in F is as likely to be infected as a person in row 74. </font>

Well, even if air is re-circulated (which , I have been told, is only partly correct), does not mean a person in F is as likely to be infected as a person in row 74 or in Y. THe reaSOn is that mainstream wisdom thus far(as it is too early for there to be any conclusive view) is that the virus is not likely to be airborne but that droplets are *extremely* contagious. Such droplets can spill over a distance of 5 feet when a person coughs. So that is how passengers aboard a flight from Beijing were infected (from 2 rows in Y). Now, do you have as many close neighbours in F?

What I meant was that a person sitting in F is as likely come on board infected with SARS as the person in the back of Y, so worrying about cabin loads is a bit worrying about the barn door after the horse has bolted.

Yes, with an emptier F cabin and wider spacing between the seats you may have a slightly lower chance of catching something, but I stand by what I said before: if you're really worried stay home, if you're not get on a plane. Don't worry about where in the plane you sit.

Does this mean that a person sneezing beside you on a CX flight is more likely to have SARS than on an AF, BA, LH flight?

Before SARS , there was ebola disease and there wasn't much concern there.

If you're really so concerned on flying, then DON'T. It isn't just on CX, SQ, BR, JL or any other airline flying to and from asia you know. It could be anyone. From anywhere these days.

It could have been TB that you've been exposing all these years and you didn't even know it.