Originally Posted by
DernierVirage
I still think it's inexcusable that there was no water canon salute or a special welcome at the gate in HKIA though.
I feel really sad reading the last few posts, I loved the CX 747s so much, it's like part of my life has disappeared.
Yea, I would've thought a water salute....Austrian got the cannon a few weeks ago for....restarting service. Sure it was a long break, but a resumption flight from Vienna gets it whereas the last CX commercial 747 landing at its home port doesn't? Nostalgic I guess and disappointed this is it...so many flights on that bird. The nose with the new F was simply unbeatable. I'd take that over EK F any day, even with the downgrades to the soft product.
The whole experience still sounds nice...but a bit mismanaged. That pretty much sums up CX these days.