LAX - HKG - Who thought of a 1:55am departure time?
Jul 10, 2017, 10:10 pm
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LAX - HKG - Who thought of a 1:55am departure time?
I'm headed from DFW to LAX to HKG. Since I arrive at LAX around 10:30pm, I'll have a few hours to kill. However, every single one-world lounge at LAX closes before midnight (well one AC is open till 12:30am). I wonder who the genius is that devised a flight time when not a single lounge would be accessible.
Jul 10, 2017, 10:18 pm
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Jul 11, 2017, 12:52 am
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The AC lounge's closing time basically coincides with this flight. With a current 2am closing time, it's a 22 hours a day club, probably the closest to 24 hours a day.
Jul 11, 2017, 3:26 am
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The AC stays open for the flight, and another thing is they board well ahead of time (50-60 minutes prior).
Jul 11, 2017, 4:27 am
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I'm headed from DFW to LAX to HKG. Since I arrive at LAX around 10:30pm, I'll have a few hours to kill. However, every single one-world lounge at LAX closes before midnight (well one AC is open till 12:30am). I wonder who the genius is that devised a flight time when not a single lounge would be accessible.
As for the lounge access, the QF F Lounge (if you are OWE/AA EXP) starts nudging people out around midnight, and then one can wander to the temp AA F Lounge to wait to board. It will be open, just as the AC, until the final boarding call.
Jul 11, 2017, 7:26 am
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And this lounge stays open later when a QF flight is delayed, which IME happens fairly often (fortunately for me when waiting for the AA flight).
Jul 11, 2017, 7:41 am
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The flight arrives HKG at 8:10 am, in good time for a business day at Hong Kong or to make the mid-morning tranche of ongoing flights, much as the CX flight departing SFO at 12:55 am. AA offers lounge access for LAX to HKG passengers flight.
Jul 11, 2017, 8:18 am
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I'm headed from DFW to LAX to HKG. Since I arrive at LAX around 10:30pm, I'll have a few hours to kill. However, every single one-world lounge at LAX closes before midnight (well one AC is open till 12:30am). I wonder who the genius is that devised a flight time when not a single lounge would be accessible.
Jul 11, 2017, 8:24 am
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Pax have a full day to work in LA, or even make a connection, and then be in HKG early morning for a shot at a productive day, business or tourism, if desired.
Our late departure/7am arrival in Sydney last year worked much, much better than my 3am Mumbai arrivals ever have (despite great lounges at JFK and DXB)
Planning around business hours rather than lounges (which, as noted, are actually open anyway) seem to make sense to me.
So I guess geniuses like me and others who think of the entire customer base.
Our late departure/7am arrival in Sydney last year worked much, much better than my 3am Mumbai arrivals ever have (despite great lounges at JFK and DXB)
Planning around business hours rather than lounges (which, as noted, are actually open anyway) seem to make sense to me.
So I guess geniuses like me and others who think of the entire customer base.
Jul 11, 2017, 8:38 am
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I love these midnight departure times to HKG. When I want to go see my girlfriend, it's work full day in LA, head to the airport from the office, eat dinner in the lounges, shower and freshen up, and then get onboard. Land in HK and after immigration, be greeted by her in the arrivals area, a quick pit stop in one of the arrivals lounges to shower, and then time to hit the city with her.
Jul 11, 2017, 9:04 am
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I always did the DFW-HKG but hated how you got in at night and the day was shot in HKG. When the LAX-HKG flights started, I gave it a try and I'm hooked now. Full day of work here. Take the evening flight from JFK, spend a few hours at the club, get on and sleep (the FA's usually have no problem holding your meals in J and F so you can sleep and eat later). Wake up refreshed and with a whole day in HKG^