Exactly, after all, we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars for a plane and you don't exactly pick it up in a dealership and do a trade-in with your old plane for a new one.

I can see CX bought the planes when the fuel prices are relatively low, and the cost-benefit analysis shows profit. However, with ridiculous fuel prices nowadays, despite CX's best attempt to dump them on consumers, they are going to pay much more in cost, and A343 (or any A340) is just not going to be worth it. I'm not surprise if CX internal audit shows those flights by A340 are a losing cost, but they have to keep offering it to stay in market and waiting for more 773ERs to arrive.

Fuel prices are making airlines suffered. I read Thai airlines had to cancel New York-Bangkok route because their internal audit shows they need to consistently sell 90% of seats just to break even on every flight!!!!