Originally Posted by
kamchatsky
True. There are a lot of mainland Chinese who would rather travel their local Chinese airline. But they don't have the frequencies such as CX with 4 flights per day.
I don't have the time to cross ref the two lists, but another point is that if you're not in the 14 cities with ns to SYD, it's not likely you will have CX/KA service to HKG to connect to SYD.
With the uncertainties of china ATC, why risk missing the CX flight when you can go ns?