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Old Nov 5, 1999 | 12:39 pm
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Celestar340
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What would you like to know? I have not flown YYZ-HKG before but if it's CX service, it would be similar everywhere.

I fly CX long-haul whenever I can. Flights between YYZ-HKG are flown on an A340-300 aircraft. The Business Class seats are in a 2-2-2 layout, split in between by a galley. (Opt for the seats just behind First Class)

Seat pitch is 50%. Recline is ? Enough to be comfotable anyway. The seats are not automaticaly mechanical so you would have to push the leg rest back to its original position when you need to stow it. I find the CX seats very comfortable due to it's 'angle' when fully reclined. It helps too that the A340 aircraft has extremely quiet engines.

The meal service on Cathay is excellent in my opinion. Food presentation is very good and extremely pleasing to the eye. (Surprisingly since CX uses the same flight kitchens as some of the other airlines in YYZ and YVR and their meals look sloppy). Anyway, there are always at least 3 choices of the main meal to choose from, unless the flight departs late as the YYZ flights do - so the main meal choices might be down to 2. There is at least one Asian dish somewhere. CX does not serve Starbucks coffee but on their Business and First Class cabins, one can opt for either espresso, latte or cappucino...served on special Cathay Pacific cups.

Inflight entertainment consists of over 10 hours of inseat video entertainment - per channel and theer are usually over 14 channels to choose from. One may never see the same movie again as Cathay changes movies according to the routes they fly. ie Westbound flights to HK will have different selections to Eastbound flights to HK. Similarly, flights to Europe, Australia and witin asia have different programming - so it's actually refreshing to be able to watch something new every time you fly on CX.

Flight attendants are attentive and courteous with an asian flair. CX flight attendants are a wonderful mix of asian nationalities that on any one flight, there are flight attendants who speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Thai languages to name a few.

I don't want to sound unfilial to Canadian but after a few bad experiences of late, I much prefer to fly with Cathay Pacific. The only area where CP is better than CX is actually the economy class seating. CP's seat pitch is much more generous at 34". CX fails miserably at 32". Those 2" makes a lot of difference when the flight stretches over 7 hours!
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