Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
As for lounge, I am still in the camp that CX should try to enforce "capacity control" on OW members to solve capacity issues. CX has does its best to try to increase lounges but that only go so far.
I would be interested to see the data (which probably are proprietary, alas) on how many pax using CX lounges at HKG are actually on CX/KA flights vs how many are "interlopers" from other oneworld services. And how many are oneworld elites vs CX elites.
By design, the oneworld rule limiting access to sapphire/emerald is supposed to serve as a form of capacity control. But I think we suffer for the fact that there is a huge difference in quality between the CX lounges at HKG and any other oneworld option. I gather the BA/QF lounge is nothing to write home about, although I'll give it a try later this week just to see for myself.