Yes. Confirmed when I traveled BOS-HKG last December.

BOS was increasing to 5x weekly sometime around now. Anyone know what date it is and how CX is doing now 1-year in on the route? I'd read the premium cabins were selling much better than expected. Would love to hear from anyone with more info.

Selling for cash or miles?

Cash. Seems pretty tough to find J of F award tickets to/from BOS outside of 5-7 days before flight. But it seems you already knew that - https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...y-bos-hkg.html

If the flights are doing well, perhaps it can go daily.

Its going daily as of 3.26.2017 http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/...as-of-01sep16/

Really thrilled to hear this. Pretty soon after BOS launched, i came to realize how darn convenient if was for me from a selfish perspective. (I'm a traveler based in HK with frequent North America trips). Although I have more meetings in NY during US trips, I frequently have a day in Boston. Prior I'd usually round-trip from NY or put Boston in the middle and fly ex-Logan to another US city after meetings were over. CX service means I can terminate a US trip in Boston. And now with daily it means I don't have to be cute and worry which day.

Absolutely love the late night departures because it means a completely full day of meetings plus an extended business dinner, plus even an extra drinks if necessary before going to the airport.

I guess CX has picked up the yields. Very glad to see it.

I think that people who aren't from Boston don't realize the extent to which everyone believes him/herself to be a first line individual stakeholder in every decision. Witness the mess which resulted in Boston withdrawing from a bid to host the Olympics and the current nonsense of one of the small town mayors (Joe Curtatone from Somerville) trying to shake down Steve Wynn, even after problems with the city of Boston were resolved. Complete nonsense.

As far as availability only showing up in the week or so before departure ex-BOS, that's not at all unusual for CX. In fact, I'd say that it's SOP.

As North America continues to strengthen, I think its becoming inevitable that the 777X order will be increased as we near EIS. Current order is 25 but they'll need more to match up with they're plan of using them to strengthen NA routes. JFK, YVR & LAX will see them for sure and I'd imagine BOS, YYZ, SFO & ORD are likely plus LHR in Europe. The A351 doesn't have the payload capability on those longer sectors that CX needs. I think we'll see that aircraft takeover most of the European routes such as AMS, FRA & possibly even CDG. Australia will likely be a tossup between A359 and A351.

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Current order is 21 for the 779.

Right, I had it mixed up with the A350-1000 order. Thanks

Hi All-

I've got a general question on the BOS-HKG direct flight. Does anyone have a feel for the number of DMs on this flight "typically"? Yes, I know it probably varies wildly, and it would be a wild guess most likely, but I'm still curious.

I'm WAY over thinking (aka hoping) regarding an upcoming reservation that I have on CX811 in paid J. It is the first leg of what is going to be a brutal 11 day RTW business trip with way too little sleep. Right now on cx.com Y and PEY are showing "Full" and yesterday so was J (today it has some availability). I'm curious about potential J->F op up chances and obviously the number of other DMs on the flight will have a major impact on that.

I know it is highly variable, and unlikely to be based on fact, but that has never stopped us before - anyone have a guess how the chances may look?

Thanks!

Agreed. First, even if someone can provide you with the information, what would you do with it? Unless you're going to use the info to rethink and possibly change your flight, what difference does it make, other than something to fret over?

That said, it appears that the flight is not actually full (they open more seats from time to time); and my understanding is that CX doesn't opup unless the flight/cabin is oversold.

On my whopping 2 BOS sectors flown so far, 1 I can't remember. The other was a month ago and there were exactly 3 DMs on board including myself. I asked. I was in J and didn't score an op up despite F being 3/6. I left BOS on a Monday workday night (Tues morning) IIRC. Unfortunately this is just one small anecdote. I don't know how many Emeralds - probably quite a few more - but I suppose they're irrelevant to your chances of op-up anyway.