Old CX Flight Numbers
 

I know the possiblities of this are low, but does anyone know what the old flight numbers were for the HKG-MAN and MAN-HKG flights were? I flew this route as a child and I was just wondering!

I had no ideo CX ever served MAN, speaking of airports in that region, I heard that EK wants to send 5 daily A388s to LHR !!

was it a 1-stop via AMS? if then it would just be CX270/271 with a AMS-MAN tag-on... just like how it is with paris now
or was there a ZRH-MAN tag-on?
ref: http://www.airfleets.net/flightlog/i...b747&msn=24925

hi there,

i re-call the old cx flight no tag on from ZRH-MAN was 290/291. i recall this was also a tag on to LGW in 90s.

Cheers

Thanks for the flight numbers.

I actually think that between 93 and 97, they were actually non-stop between HKG and MAN but I could be wrong!

Anyone else think the same?

I remember MAN being a tag on from CDG in the late nineties/early 00's, which would have been 260/1.

Did the CX flight numbers to all north american ports (YVR, YYZ, JFK, LAX etc.) exist since day 1 of their operations?

Back in the 1980's/early 90's the CX flight to YVR was CX 800 and the return was CX 801. I think for a time, CX flew HKG-YVR-SFO / SFO-YVR-HKG.

What time did CX883 an other early morning arrival flights from EU and AU arrive? Assuming that it couldn't be 5am landings like now due to Kai tak not being a 24hr airport?

hello again,

can't speak for NA flights, however, in the 90s, the flights i took from LGW outbound flights mostly on cx220 (direct)/200(via BAH)/260(via CDG))/290(via ZRH) all arrived in hk between 0700 to 0800. And i definitely saw the board showing that there were flights arrived before my flights did. I would imagine most likely they would have flights arrived before 0700 even in the days of kai tak.

cheers

I have CX Timetable booklet of Issue 3, 27 October 96 - 29 March 97.

CX260 MAN-CDG-HKG 1000-1210/1330-0820
CX261 HKG-CDG-MAN 2330-0545/0705-0750
CDG-MAN-CDG on 247(Tue,Thu,Sun)
CX270 MAN-AMS-HKG 1040-1225/1415-0855
CX271 HKG-AMS-MAN 2255-0610/0730-0750
AMS-MAN-AMS on 1356(Mon,Wed,Fri,Sat)

EDIT: All flights were 744 FCY config.

Thanks Wasabi Tofu! Thats mega useful. Turns out I flew CX260 back in 93. Does anyone remember if BA did the MAN-HKG route? Apparently I flew BA from HKG-MAN back in 97!

I would suggest the OP or other FTers with similar questions to get jimyvr here to help if he wants to...

Was this flight B744, B742 or A342 operated?

If via CDG or AMS then it would have been 744 during 1996-97.