Originally Posted by
LchChester
CX253 is an afternoon flight rather than in the mid-night where there is a wave of CX's 77Ws departure, there is usually spare frames in the afternoon and less likely resulting a delay like this due to technical.
There's a bit of speculation as to if the HKG-LHR flight (CX 253) was due to a technical issue or ATC. I was on this flight. It was ATC. Immediately after the doors closed, the captain explained that the anticipated delay was approx 3 hours (which turned out to be 4 hours). The captain's estimate was based on the time slot given to the flight due to take off immediately before us, so that flight was delayed as well. He also explained it was necessary to get all passengers on board first before being able to request a push back time, and as such it wasn't possible for us to wait it out in the terminal. I was also a bit surprised that long haul flights were badly affected that day. The first meal service was done on the ground before take off.