KA indeed used to have a daily flight to CNX - sometimes using a A330 in the peak season.

Hoping it comes back sooner rather than later!

Does anyone know if Cathay intends to resume its Taipei fifth freedom routes?

How could doing so possibly be in its best interests?

As I understand the position the three fifth freedom flights ex Taipai are suspended not cancelled -this for 2 reasons:
Continuing broad restrictions imposed by the Taiwan government are at the moment preventing the flights
They are low on Cathays light recovery priority and unlikely to operate again until late in the year. It is expected the the existing Taiwan retractions will be rescinded by then.

HKG - JNB will resume on August 3.
Three times a week using the A350

Presumably they were making good money on those routes, that's why they chose to fly them in the first place? They had ICN/NRT/NGO/KIX all out of TPE, why would they have flown to all those places out of TPE if they weren't making money on them? The only route they "have to" fly out of TPE is HKG... Plus, if HKG as a hub and as an O&D destination is impaired due to the mainland's various policies, flights that have nothing to do with HKG ought to be even more valuable to the airline than pre-pandemic.

Ah that's helpful to know, I didn't know that the government was preventing those flights

Wow! Nice to hear that it did so well in the past. I think the UO flight existed before CX bought them anyways so I don't think UO actually took CX's slot to fly to CNX.
Hopefully it'll get an A321neo by CX!

The flights used to be extremely popular (for some reason), we actually had a hard time trying to book the ones that continued on to HKG from TPE due to the high load (that was 2019). The Taiwanese also seem to like the other leg from Japan/Incheon to TPE as well.
I think the main issue is once again Taiwanese entrance requirements (which should be relaxed soon) and the Japanese restricting flights to HKG. Given that CX has to cancel some of its direct traffic to Japan, I don't think we will see fifth freedom routes until much later in the year.

I don't think it's that surprising, there's a lot of demand for Taiwan-Japan travel (both leisure and business) and Cathay is a great carrier (as are the local full-service carriers), so there's plenty of O&D traffic to sustain the route. Plus, depending on specific passengers' travel needs, CX may have been perfectly suited for them to be loyal to. As a Taipei-based traveler, CX was covering all the most popular North Asia business destinations excluding mainland China (the 4 busiest destinations from TPE in 2019 were HKG, HND / NRT, KIX, and ICN), and if you want to go to Europe, other than a handful of direct flights by BR/CI (some of which routed through BKK anyways), CX has a wider network. Obviously not ideal if your travels include a lot of North America, Southeast Asia or mainland China, but there's plenty of Taipei-based travelers for whom CX would work (and I believe they only had a handful of frequencies so it's not as difficult to fill up the plane with the limited number of travelers for whom CX appeals to).

Good to hear that.

A350 will be better than the previous 77W in J cabin.

​​​​​​​I agree since I've seen a lot of Taiwanese take CX and use it for transits etc., usually to Europe/S.E. Asia but I fear that with the introduction of Starlux, there may be less transiting passengers going through CX

Fair enough, Starlux has the Japan point-to-point routes covered (no Nagoya or Haneda, but they do have Fukuoka, Naha and Sapporo), but no ICN, HKG (perhaps not yet relevant) or Europe 1-stops. I'd think that on the Japan routes, there's enough room in the market for CX to add a flight to each destination they used to fly to and for S.E. Asia, both BR and CI had pretty extensive non-stops networks to the region, so I'd think where CX used to fit in the market hasn't quite been overtaken by Starlux just yet

I noticed CX are still adjusting schedules for flights to EU for the next few months, notably flights to MAD no longer operates on Thu or Sat from July onwards, but Wed and Fri instead.
If I had already booked a flight for late-Sep, when can I expect to receive a notification of cancellation? Booking via BA with Avios means I need to get that cancellation notification from CX before I can call BA to request rerouting using their policies.

I too am in a similar situation with a HKG to EU flight in Sep. I can no longer find my flight on google or CX website. Really hope my flight isn't cancelled

When do you think there will a direct flight resumed between Hong Kong and Moscow?. I doubt Aeroflot will be coming back without EU transit pax, but Hainan, CZ (From Shenzhen) and CA have resumed flights to Moscow, I think Pre covid there was up to 2 daily MU (Shanghai, Xi'an) and 2 daily CZ (Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Wuhan) flights to Moscow in the warmer months.

Moscow was canceled years ago. While the 2018 world cup period, Hong Kong Airlines had flights to SVO, and the low yield is a no for HX to continue. I strongly doubt if CX is going to have any Moscow now as even if S7 is out of the alliance.