I actually just bought Christmas for 2 pax SFO to BKK via HKG, connecting onto Cathay. Wasn't cheap but that is also a busy travel season and there was PZ available so I jumped on it. Overall looked good to me, long stretch TPAC and then 3hr flight over in econ.
1hr15 connection time onto the last Cathay to BKK, HX was pricing similarly but left 2hrs later so I preferred to just run the risk