Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
With almost 20 daily flights going in and out of TPE, I would say that qualifies as a "mini-hub." CX should try to pick up SQ's slack and try a HKG-TPE-LAX flight and see how that goes.
CX doesn't have the trans-pacific fifth freedom beyond TPE, and I doubt Taiwan government would grant it. Also, both CI/BR will strongly object CX to step into this market as well.