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Old Mar 23, 2008 | 8:02 am
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Originally Posted by Flying Doctor
...I am pleased to hear that there is at least one flight to SYD with F (presumably the one I am booked on). I had also heard that ultimately there will only be J from HKG to SYD with CX. I am surprised but I guess that there just isn't enough money in it!

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More like CX is short on planes and some routes had to go. Also it is likely to be temporary. YYZ lost F years ago, and CX appears to be bringing it back this year, and that is a lower yield route than SYD. For a long time SYD had about 80% of the CX F service to Australia, when QF gave up that market. Now QF is much more interested (owing to its HKG-LHR service). For a long time CX and QF acted like adversaries rather than allies, maybe they have reached an accomodation and QF has won the F market.
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