Originally Posted by
LDVFlyer
As for AA, their customers are also CX's customers, so much so that after years of putting their own customers on CX flights AA will soon start their second flight to HKG offering an identical hard product in J and a new soft product that is arguably better than Cathay's. (AA's SYD/LAX catering will become the standard on all long haul international.)
AA HKG service - indeed, its total Asian service - is a trivial fraction of AA's total long-haul RPMs. There really isn't that much overlap with the customer set that has been pushed to CX or JL codeshares to keep earning AA miles.