FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - CX507 KIX to HKG cancelled on 10 May 2024
Thread: CX507 KIX to HKG cancelled on 10 May 2024
View Single Post
Old May 11, 2024 | 10:35 pm
  #4  
Reply1984
All eyes on you!
5 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 614
Originally Posted by aarnn
No insider info - but I’m sitting at JFK and just watched the flight take off - and saw on Flight Aware that it’s being redirected from HKG to KIX. Picking up passengers perhaps?
Due to the the geomagnetic storm, the flights need to take some detour and carry more back-up fuel when flying the polar route. It seems that B77W is not capable of this. CX831 by 77W today does not fly the polar route while other flights by A35K takes a southerly route.
Reply1984 is offline  
Reply