Originally Posted by JohnAx
Travel opinions from a stranger are useless, but we didn't find Negombo something we'd look forward to again. If you pick a day the 777 isn't resting, Cathay should hand you your tickets and let you be on your way with nothing worse than brief exposure to a very dreary airport. Show your inbound bp's and Cathay will probably not charge departure tax.
YEah that is what I will do if I wanted to start in CMB (just an instant turnaround. Urmmm. Maybe it is a possibility, but I will have to waste 2 days of my vactaion to do this as my BA flight to BKK is arriving @ 2130 so I need to wait till the following night to get the service to CMB and then back to HKG.
In net effect I only save around 500USD and all these hassle seems to be a bit too much than the incentive and the added inflexibility (having to fly HKG-CMB and then CMB-BKK in order for me to use my Z Class BKK-SYD ticket home.