Originally Posted by christep
I know CX has mentioned it is looking at Beirut as an onwards leg from DXB (or was it from BAH?).
It would be from BAH and there was a recent breakthrough regarding this happening.
Four months ago, Bahrain and Hong Kong agreed to unlimited flights between the two. Not only that, but 5th freedom rights were given from Bahrain to Beirut and ONLY Beirut (unless it's been expanded recently).
Supposidly this agreement was signed by the governments at the request of Cathay Pacific, so we might see them serving Beirut in the near future, perhaps next year.
Beirut is in need of more Far East service. Currently, Beirut's only direct link to the far east is 3x weekly Malaysia Airlines A330-200 service from Kuala Lumpur with a stop in Dubai. I heard they are doing pretty well.
Regards