Originally Posted by
marcommm
And many Japanese cities. With the immense love of Hong Kong people towards Japan, the flights can easily be filled with leisure travellers. I do not understand why CX cannot sustain daily flights to CTS throughout the year while HX is doing at least 9 weekly. Moreover, KA often has charter flights bringing tourists to various Japanese cities. It is impossible for CX to not know the popularity of Japan.
And I believe if the partnership with LH group does not exist, CX may have added (more) flights to Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna long ago.
I believe price is one of the main issue - CTS is highly tourist-driven and HX/UO has been trying very hard in recent years to build their brandname in HK. Given that more people in HK (especially the younger generation) now are price sensitive rather than being loyal, I'm not surprised HX has a higher frequency to CTS. Same goes for OKA too (and probably DPS to certain extent)
For MUC and VIE, I think majority of the LH/OS passengers are on connecting flights and not much premium load again - or else CX would not have pulled out of DUS route as well.