For anyone booking RTW tickets through New Zealand, or who are simply interested in buying or upgrading to F on AKL-HKG, note that sporadic 34C service will shortly resume on both CX107/8 and CX117/8. You will need to check the schedules for the particular day you wish to fly as there does not appear to be a consistent rhyme or reason to the scheduling. It roughly looks like any four of ten weekly services will offer First. Before you ask, yes, First Class is available for sale on these services and it is not a case of a three-class aircraft operating a two-class flight.

The change is probably due to a combination of 34C airframes being freed from the reduction of CX262/3 and the movement of CX256/7 to 34B operation, and slackening Economy Class demand meaning that a 205 Y-seat aircraft can accept the market demand just as well as a 257 Y-seat aircraft. If Y loads are not exceeding 205 on a regular basis, even selling one First Class seat on a 34C will bring in some nice $ for CX it would not otherwise have had.

FAQs have been updated accordingly.