NBC on Schedule?
 

I know that CX was planning to finish installing the NBC by the end of this year. i wonder if SARS and cost-cutting postphone CX's target date? Does anyone know?

If anything it has increased the proportion of NBC planes in service (and some out of service are being retrofitted). I heard somewhere that over 80% of the current rotation is with NBC (but I wasn't paying much attention, sorry).

The number of 74Js and 744s (vs. 74B which is OBC) on CX's website between 1/2003 and today has not changed at all, indicating that conversion to NBC has not occurred so far this year. A conversion schedule posted in this forum by a CX insider (presumably) a few months back purported to show that all but 2, IIRC, of the nineteen 747-400s will have been converted to NBC by midyear 2003. SARS didn't hit hard until March/April so I don't know what held up the conversion earlier this year.

The CX web site is one of the least accurate sources of CX aircraft data. They don't update very often at all... I'm sure that some planes have been converted since 1/2003 but they just have not updated the web site.

I heard from a senior cx source that all fittings of nbc seats have been suspended. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif