Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London | Sydney
Programs: LH HON, QF CLP1, SQ TPPS, AF Plat, VS Gold, VA Plat, EK Gold, HH Dia, WoH Globalist, Marriott Plat
Posts: 1,540
I fly SYD-HKG regularly and am increasingly flying home on SQ via SIN in F/Suites.
In my small sample size of 4 flights HKG-SIN-SYD in F this calendar year, there has been at least 2 others (sometimes more) flying the exact same route in the First Class cabin.
Even with my personal experience aside, I just can't help but strongly believe that there is definitely a market for some First Class travel SYD-HKG.
Qantas couldn't make it work as their First Class cabin on the A380 is simply too big, but it would be nowhere near as difficult to do well with 1x 6 seater cabin per day.
I've been told by senior execs at QF that if they had one additional aircraft with a modern First Class cabin (i.e. not the 20yo First which remains on 2 747 aircraft) they would deploy it to HKG in a heartbeat. However, unfortunately that isn't the case, so I see a big opportunity for CX here.