Originally Posted by
ernestnywang
I have actually been amazed that they are open till 18:30, because most offices in Taiwan closes at 17:00. Regarding KA483, I think if they push it back even further, it would lost the ability to connect to some FLTs departing for Europe and LAX. AFAIK, the loading on KA483 is only moderate, because many TAs are used to specifying for CX FLT when booking, and thus would book CX531 even if KA483 is possible.
Well I guess i am the spoiled HK-er
for the connecting flight I think they should just spread across those flights in 6pm and 7pm ... instead of 1 flight every 40 min they should do more like one every 60 minute and more evenly distribute the departure. Last time my flight was delayed for 1 hr for KA483 and most of the passenger are terminating in HKG... if you are connecting to onward travel it doesn't really matter for the TPE flight.
Ideally they should do 2 banks of transit flight :
2100 exTPE for 2300-2400 exHKG (CX251 / LAX / CDG / SYD)
2200 exTPE for 2400-2600 exHKG (CX255 / Rome / FRA / AMS / MXP .....)
The key benefit is really allow a proper dinner in Taipei, then jump on taxi to TPE (which takes 45 min when your taxi know what they are doing, take the ocean front highway instead of the stupid main one)
Come to think about it .... they have a 2030 ex-PVG so it should be pretty straight forward for a 2130 ex-TPE to work
Too bad HX got all the recent slots ... TPE-HKG should actually start open sky? (well at HKG benefit ... I guess it's the Taiwan carrier that doesn't like that idea)