Originally Posted by
capin
I confess to having not read every post in this thread's 40 pages so I apologize in advance if this has already been covered -
Does anyone know of a rollout schedule for the 10 abreast 777 please? I am flying 807/806 ORD-HKG-BKK-HKG-ORD over thanksgiving. I have OWE so I got free exit seats on all sectors but as I don't do 10 abreast 777s, I may have to cancel the ticket. (That and ANA are doing a nice J promotion JFK-NRT/HND-KUL).
Thanks,
Impossible to know.
First, right now only the 77K is flying....this is the former 77G config, aka no F, aka not the plane that flies ORD (that's 77H, with F). So what this means is 77K is only going to appear on routes where 77G was present. (See the link at bottom to make better sense of this)
But, presumably 77H reconfigurations are coming soon, too. And that reconfigured 77H will be flying to ORD. The problem is we don't know when those planes will be coming out of the shop.
ONCE the planes come out of the shop, we don't exactly know how CX will roster them. For example, normally there is no special rotation for CX birds. Aka, if you have a 77H-specific flight you could get any bird in the 77H sub fleet. This has mattered from time to time because of refurbishments: years back an F class refresh, and recently a new IFE and very very minor F class refresh. You could not and cannot predict which flight will get the refreshed vs non refreshed birds. Basically that refreshed 77H could go to JFK, ORD, LHR, FRA, SFO, or any of the other flight numbers scheduled for 77H service.
Edit later: It seems like CX won't be rostering these birds in a special manner based on G-CIVG's post below. Meaning, what I describe above in this paragraph is most likely - you won't be able to predict it as long as the reconfigs are still ongoing. So with your flight to/from ORD over Thanksgiving, you will not be able to know, period.
But, this is a little different. Given the seat count difference, maybe CX will indeed start specifically rostering it on certain routes because they can sell additional seats. But the downside to that is it will create some increased operational problems until the whole fleet is reconfigured. Unfortunately we don't know yet. Come back in a few months and we might have more clarity. (Or others might already). Thanksgiving is a while away.
In the meantime follow this sheet below of ours: we maintain it with all the CX and KA configs and update it at least once a week or more. AFAIK it's the most accurate public source of CX fleet, route, config etc info.
Cathay Pacific / Cathay Dragon Fleet, Route and Configuration Guide