where is the 346
 

anybody know which routes the 346(s) will be flying after april 1? tried finding them online invain

The CX100/1 Hong Kong - Sydney is supposed to kick in with a 346 sometime round then.

Does HKG-LAX 2nd flight lose it after April?

Upgauged to 744. Maybe CX got sick of all the *****ing by US travelers whenever the 346 had a mechanical and was replaced with old J/old F.

Not to mention when its IFE went kaput (as it did on my one and only 346 flight)...

not according to the CX website. did they just change the designation to EQV, or am I just blind? I can't find the 346 on any route. Did they take it back to the shop?

Well, the 346 will be used on the SYD flight (CX 100/1) for the summer season. Originally, it will also be used to launch the NYC nonstop flight, but is obviously not happening. I suspect that it will show up randomly on CX's network... maybe on the YYZ flights soon.

To be fair, the new studio CX had some teething problems throughout the fleet... even on Boeing 747s and Airbus A340-300s. It is new technology and we need to give CX some times. Even SQ has problems with their systems too.

About A346s, I am sure that those teething problems will be resolved within the next quarter.

About the 2nd nonstop flight to LAX, it has just been eliminated till June 1, 2003, due to SARS. The sole nonstop will use Boeing 747.

Carfield

Well the Sydney photographers are going crazy snapping the A340-600 at Sydney judging by the number of photos of the birds that are suddenly popping up on photo databases.

I've booked CX101 in early January and it's the 346 - and it'd better stay that way! Toronto, you be content with the 343!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I just booked my June travel..and the A346
creeps back in the schedule as the 11P flt
LA HKG . Yikes . Me no like it . And the
744 is leaving at 12:55AM with only about
an hour to connect in HKG...so , I am
stucked again on that beauty !!!

Aside from the fact that I'm no fan of A340s, I wouldnt be surprised at all if CX terminates their acquisition of these aircraft... what need do they have for them? An NYC nonstop that they've never been all too serious about implimenting for one reason or the next (three attempts and no results is somewhat pathetic)? Are the restrictions imposed on 744As flying HKG-LAX great enough to warrant a subfleet of 3 aircraft?

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A340s don't fly... they're repelled from Earth by their ugliness!

They never acquired them in the first place.

5 year lease from ILFC

Well, if you'd like to be that anal, I'd say that you're incorrect: as the aircraft have obviously been acquired but not purchased http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/rolleyes.gif

*referring to former post*
In other words... it may be cheaper/easier for CX to terminate/renegotiate their lease as opposed to keeping 3 aircraft in operation that they werent even intended (by CX) for.



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A340s don't fly... they're repelled from Earth by their ugliness!

Where are the 346's??

In the workshop, of course!

Sorry... was just shocked no one else had posted it yet!

Well they couldn't really be, could they. They are a European quality product.

Seriously: all 346 entries in the cx system seem to have been replaced with the nondescript EQV. Now I'll only catch it by chance. I was trying to sample superior Airbus performance on a flight to SYD - the most likely destination these days.

My August flight (CX 883) was just changed from a 74J to a A346 ? Seating went from 86AC to 14 AC....

Reading the above I trust this is pretty bad news ? I am slightly surprised though, I thought a brand new aircraft would be nice ? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif