Further Route Resumptions?
Mar 5, 2024, 6:17 pm
#31
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: CRK MNL
Programs: CX Gold
Posts: 1,288
I wonder when will bookings for CRK flights be open.
Mar 5, 2024, 6:21 pm
#32
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: CRK MNL
Programs: CX Gold
Posts: 1,288
Mar 5, 2024, 9:05 pm
#33
Join Date: Aug 2016
Programs: CX Life Time,TG,
Posts: 265
They belong on direct cheapy direct flights or HK Express. Angeles is seedy, populated by retired folk on basic pensions looking for the the lowest cost beer and by the Korean equivalent of the Costa Packet bucket and spade brigade. Cathay does not price for any of them although it seems to want to match Cebu Pacific's cost of service, buying a monster fleet of A321s instead of quality state of the art widebody craft. Big gamblers with thick wallets head to the new casinos on Manila Bay.
Mar 5, 2024, 9:43 pm
#34
Join Date: Nov 2012
Programs: SPG Platinum
Posts: 1,693
Mar 5, 2024, 9:54 pm
#35
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 691
The airport is 13K from the small city of Angeles which is not at all the focus of the airport, Cathay or the other major international airlines (Qatar Emirates Eva Scoot Air Asia Starlux Asiana etc etc) along with Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific that now use the airport and it sizable new terminal.
The airport has large highly populated catchment area apart from Manila which ensured that Cathay enjoyed full loading and added a second daily flight to HK.
Flight to HK take normally about 1 hour 20 minutes and seem not to require ether wide body aircraft or lie-flat seats.
The airport has large highly populated catchment area apart from Manila which ensured that Cathay enjoyed full loading and added a second daily flight to HK.
Flight to HK take normally about 1 hour 20 minutes and seem not to require ether wide body aircraft or lie-flat seats.
Mar 5, 2024, 10:03 pm
#36
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: HKG/HND/OOL
Programs: QF Emerald. SQ Gold.
Posts: 3,171
Clark shud be Hk expess. Sin City Vice Capitol, or at least my perception is. They just need a flight that leaves hk at 6pm friday and return flight timed for 11pm landing sunday. Not trying to offend anyone but thats what i feel/hear from bunch of gweilous i Know... or maybe i am.in wrong circle of friends
Mar 5, 2024, 10:57 pm
#37
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 691
The route is highly patronised by Philippines who work in HK and particularly the 180,000 or so registered and contracted housekeepers (helpers) employed in HK.
CX offers this group special lower cost fares.
CX offers this group special lower cost fares.
Mar 6, 2024, 2:43 am
#38
Join Date: Aug 2016
Programs: CX Life Time,TG,
Posts: 265
Ron, let's deploy some of our scare resources to Clark where we can attract a bunch of maids with our special low fares. Good idea Lav, that might enable us to switch another of our Manila flights from an A330 to an A321, thereby further reducing the quantity of our premium cabin capacity and providing additional manpower savings. Better still, I wonder if I can get HK Express to wet lease us one of their economy only craft. I'll just nip along to Merlin and see if he thinks it's a wizard idea.
Last edited by TomYoung; Mar 6, 2024 at 3:11 am
Mar 6, 2024, 4:33 am
#39
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 691
"a bunch of maids"
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government
Mar 6, 2024, 4:40 am
#40
Join Date: Feb 2024
Location: Toronto, Canada
Programs: CX GO, CA GO
Posts: 123
"a bunch of maids"
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government
maybe this route can come in 2026-2027, when CX has more planes (new wide body, 777X and 321neo) to spare and more crew recruited.
Mar 6, 2024, 5:12 am
#41
Join Date: Apr 2023
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 329
Clark shud be Hk expess. Sin City Vice Capitol, or at least my perception is. They just need a flight that leaves hk at 6pm friday and return flight timed for 11pm landing sunday. Not trying to offend anyone but thats what i feel/hear from bunch of gweilous i Know... or maybe i am.in wrong circle of friends
(I was previously married to a Filipina from within the Clark catchment area, so I know that of which I speak.)
Mar 6, 2024, 7:30 pm
#43
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 691
he’s got a point though - Cathay is on a long path to recovery and is currently significantly lacking manpower and tight with aircraft. Why should CX serve a destination which sounds more feasible with LCCs?
maybe this route can come in 2026-2027, when CX has more planes (new wide body, 777X and 321neo) to spare and more crew recruited.
maybe this route can come in 2026-2027, when CX has more planes (new wide body, 777X and 321neo) to spare and more crew recruited.
Mar 6, 2024, 7:36 pm
#44
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: CX MarcoPolo (SL), BA Executive Club (GO)
Posts: 1,852
"a bunch of maids"
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government
What a horrible post - you should be ashamed Tom Young
Deeming in the extreme to these hard working ladies who work so hard away from their families to keep the wheels turning for thousands of Hong Kong families
BTW Cathay have been offering these fares for at least the past 30 years at the initial request of the Philippine government