Originally Posted by
casbroker
The BLR - HKG flight is absolutely miserable in the current KA J seat. The flight is barely shorter than the BOM - HKG flight that CX operates with a lie flat bed but costs the same! I would love it if KA stopped operating that flight and had CX do it instead.
CX had always wanted to take-over the route, but due to the bilateral agreements with India, they could not.
India permits 2 airlines from Hong Kong to operate flights to India only, that's CX and KA. They have to do this in order to stop HX or UO joining the battle.
However, since now KA operates CCU, I'm not sure if CX can finally take-over the BLR route or not actually.
And to be honest, that's another reason why KA brand does not merge completely into CX brand.