From http://airlineroute.blogspot.com/sea...thay%20Pacific

Cathay Pacific is increasing the capacity on flights to Mumbai and Dubai effective October 2008.

The Hong Kong - Mumbai - Dubai (CX685/684) and Hong Kong - Bangkok - Mumbai - Dubai (CX751/750) will be upgrades from Airbus 330 service to Boeing 747-400 from 01OCT08.


Obviously they got it wrong...flights being upgraded from Boeing 777-300 to Boeing 747-400 (which seems to have the new product aswell...)

Any chance the non-stop Dubai flights will be upgraded too?? (they currently have the former 3-Class product).

I think the new First Class product could work very well in the Dubai market, especially as competitors such as Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and Thai continue to use an inferior product between Dubai and their respective hubs with cradle seats.

Maybe the Boeing 777-300 will be upgraded to the new product, and serve shorter flights such as that to Sydney that may warrant increased capacity.