Originally Posted by
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Just some guess:
Maybe the migration wave after 2019 might change the expansion plan of CX. UK, Canada and Australia are the most popular destinations. While Australia is well served, some second tier cities in UK and Canada could be the potential target.
For example, Montreal and Calgary in Canada and Birmingham and Edinburgh in UK are good candidates for the new service.
Apart from that, Newark EWR could also be back soon. The Russian airspace issues could not be solved in the foreseeable future and the east coast is in serious supply shortage.
The population of Hong Kong has been on the rise for the past year and is now back to 7.53 million the birth rate also increased in the past year.
Birmingham is a non starter for CX or BA as too close to Manchester and London. Edinburgh does not have enough potential premium traffic. Nether Montreal or Calgary have ever been of interest to Cathay as low business traffic and freight potential and too small a population to support a daily or 5 times a week flight to Hong Kong. I suspect that Dublin could return at some point in the future as well as seasonal Cape Town