And if you are Chinese that should be a lucky omen for your flight http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

CX873 on 24/2 is currently showing as 744.

[This message has been edited by christep (edited Feb 06, 2004).]

Try looking the HKG-SFO schedule and see what aircraft you get.

Time for a technology upgrade. My IBM T41 lasts 7 hours on 1 battery, and I carry a spare so I can go 14 hours heavy usage without Empower. And have better performance than any P4 laptop ever made. In-flight email access is much more important to me than Empower -- and this is proceeding frustratingly slowly.

I second this - I longer longer care with the T41

Aha. I have a T40 and a Tecra 8100. I travel with the Tecra, because that's what I had first (i.e. has all my stuff), but I'm about to swap it for (you guessed) a T41. So, maybe I won't care either.

On the other hand, having the ability to work for 7 hours means I will...

I haven't been on a CX flight without empower for a while - do they still have a bunch of a/c without it?

i find this empower thread utterly amazing. between dinner and a movie, relaxing, chatting, reading and grooming, I can work at most 2 hours on my long haul flights. and here I read about people working in excess of 7. Salute you I do.

Well, that's what the "Go Figure" part of my comment referred to. All HKGSFO flights for that week are marked "744" but the return SFOHKG flights later in the night are marked "EQV". So that's the part I don't understand. How can in inbound flight be 744 and the outbound EQV. Does the inbound 744 go somewhere else and a different aircraft comes in for the outbound? I don't think so.

Apologies.... Must be asleep when I wrote my last comment.

CX is famous for not reconciling their schedule... And who knows.. you might get a 34C or 346 instead all of a sudden. Last time I flew it turned out to be a 74J. TOTALLY unexpected.

You can also pretend to book a ticket on www.cathay-usa.com and you can look at the seatmaps that show up and figure out what aircraft configuration it is.

[This message has been edited by zhaobao (edited Feb 09, 2004).]

How many CX 747-400s still have the old business class? Thanks!

I was told yesterday by the cabin crew that two 747s still have old business class. I had the misfortune to get one of them on the day flight to London about 10 days ago. (I was in First, but the corollary of OBC is no AVOD http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif )

Thanks for the info Carfield! Do you know when the last 2 747-400s will be converted to NBC?

I'm slightly confused by this in that Carfield hasn't contributed to this thread...

But if you look at the first post in the thread you will see the schedule for the conversions. The current status is consistent with that.

Errrr... it's always a good idea to read the thread first. Perhaps your question has already been answered? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Christep, sorry to have your name mixed up and sorry for the redundant question! I didn't realized my answer was in the first post of the thread.