Originally Posted by coloneltigh

I was on this flight. There was an older passenger in the front section of economy who needed medical attention. We were over the Artic when they asked for a doctor. Apparently the guy was having a diabetic seizure as they asked for people who had diabetic medicine (they asked the couple next to me who had some diabetes medicine) but it wasn't the right kind.

I think they offloaded the passenger at Winnepeg. But unfortunately since we needed to fly 2.5 hours back to Winnepeg, the crew was gonna time out if we continued to HKG. So YWG -> JFK, landed a little after 8pm ET.

CX841D scheduled for 12:10pm on Friday. I went on that option. It was lighter by a bit (I got my own row of 3 in Y - as did most people in the rear of Y). They gave people (particularly those with onward connections) options to take CX889, the EWR redeye or the normal CX841 at 9am on Friday.

CX841D went off without a hitch. I'm in Hong Kong. All in all not fun to go 12 hours and end up in the same place. I am thankful that it was on CX and not some other carriers. Also thankful I'm on vacation and can be thankful about having my health.

CX is reimbursing the commute costs between your local address and JFK if you decided to go home. You had the option to take a room at the JFK Crowne Plaza. Also, they gave us on the 841D $100 in service vouchers.

13Nov CX841 took off on time - think their systems are not set up to handle this. I think the Friday 841 shows correctly on flightstats.