Originally Posted by
jumbojet19920711
70 minutes should be fine, unless you hit a peak period in HKG transit. Peak periods tend to be in the morning, when Europe/Aus/US flights arrive with connecting pax onward to Asia; in the early afternoon (12-3pm) when the first batch of Asia flights arrive with connecting pax onward to Asia/US; and at night when Asia flights arrive with connecting pax onward to Europe/Aus/US. Using this as a guide, CX252 (7am) and CX250 (1pm) would arrive during peak times, CX254 and CX256 less so. But I am not sure whether there are any BKK connections from 254 and 256. If there are, that would be a good choice. If not, 70 mins is pushing it during peak hours, and sometimes the officers in transit security are less than pleased when you ask them to cut the line.
We're flying ICN-HKG-SYD-CHC in January 2010. CX cancelled our ICN-HKG flight in the most recent cutbacks, and moved us to the earlier flight, 8:50 AM from ICN. This is rather early for me (especially since our positioning flights LAX-NRT-ICN arrives at 8:55 PM, and I don't think 12 hours allows enough time to clear immigration/customs, get to a hotel, check-in, unpack, sleep, get up, shower, get to the airport, clear immigration/security, etc.).
My TA suggested putting us on the 3:15 PM ICN-HKG flight, which is only 55 minutes to connect to the 7:05 PM HKG-SYD flight (which connects to the only SYD-CHC flight). She says it is a legal connection, and it isn't in the peak times listed by
jumbojet19920711. It'll be rushed, and no lounge time of course, but if it's safe it's preferable to the 8:50 AM flight.
What do you think?