Originally Posted by
tobikosan
Unsubstantiated but I have a friend in HKG who's wife is whatever top flight attendant on a plane is for Cathay and she told him they were likely to swap out a lot of planes to ones that do not have F.
At least on my flight dates (1/23 HKG-JFK and 2/2 JFK-HKG where it looks like I'm the only one paying $845 for the FC deal ) that would make the other 5 FC pax's rather upset and would cost them dearly in compensation for them. Last time I had an equipment downgrade on CX, which was more than 10 years ago, it was a HKG-BKK from 3 class to 2 class, and there was an envelope at the gate with my name on it for HK$1500 as comp. Since it was an award, I remember, that was fine.