Looks like my initial flight numbers were way off but the departure and arrival times were pretty close. :p

And I had a hunch that EWR will be 77G.

I did as well, since Continental (I mean UA), flies EWR-HKG with no F/C. I was hoping CX would offer F/C as well...especially for award space! :p

Makes sense - not sure how long its been up (perhaps since last EWR announcement) but on the Contact Us page it has EWR listed... saw this last night.

Shame no F :(

i think this flight will be capitalized by people who doesnt want to trek over to JFK (changing trains is eek!) with a price premium (like Haneda).

Surely there are enough people to fill the J cabons and enough few for the cattles.

As to F... frequency and lounge!

A big shame. I was looking forward to not trekking all the way out to JFK.

77G sounds about right. Bankers and major CEOs will gladly get in their limousines/helicopters to JFK. Jersey, Philadelphia, northereast Penn are middle- to upper-middle class pax that will be serve just as fine with J, Y+, and Y cabins. Good move by CX in my opinion.

The thing is the 77H is far more premium heavy. I suppose if they do well enough, they can always shift it to a 77H but that's 19 more F/J seats. Sounds like they expect this to have significant Y demand too in order to fill the 80 extra Y seats.

Well, that sucks. :td:

Maybe CX will choose their next US destination more wisely.

How is the Y demand on JFK-HKG? I'm guessing they could very slightly undersell their current cheapest economy fare on JFK-HKG with EWR-HKG to nudge many people over to Newark to help fill the plane.

Which Asian airline has 5X daily service to the New York City area? I don't think any east Asian carrier has more than 2 or 3X daily service to NYC (or am I wrong?). With CX's volumes, adding service to EWR starts to make more sense. If BA had 2X daily flights to New York, they'd be consolidated at a single airport as well.

CX sees the NYC market very lucrative. I can imagine the fact that in peak seasons, all the JFK-HKG got sold out and CX keeps asking for VDBs.

Since when CX would like to work with AA/JL? To me, they really don't care what AA/JL's network does. There is a reason why CX doesn't seem to want to share any part of JV with JL/AA. All the VDBs alone are more than enough to get a daily flight out from another huge NYC market.

Huge competition against UA. I think a lot of people would choose to go out of their way by driving, taking trains instead of flying lousy Q400s to EWR and connect to HKG. I have so many friends making the case of going down from ROC/BUF because NYC-HKG prices are way cheaper.


Just like ORD, I believe EWR will succeed big time. It's good to get bonus RDMs for us following the new CX route on our beloved AA FFP.

My take - They don't even have to. They will fill it up no matter what.

Maybe CX can sign a deal with Amtrak. ZFV-EWR-HKG as it were.

YAY!! Finally !! Never have to fly United again!!!

There are very few US destinations that can consistently have any demand for 3-cabin F cabins. CX probably serves all of them (JFK, SFO, LAX, maybe ORD). EWR isn't a bad choice, given that.

OK, what about SEA, DFW, MIA, IAH, DEN?
These all have at least one carrier with international F.