My wife flew to and from Morocco last year via Qatar and RAM, along with several other HKers. The RAM bit was dire. There's definitely a market for a decent flight to CMN, but whether it's big enough to support a daily A350 I'm not sure.

Any chance of DUB coming back? Or was it a poorly performing route anyway and did COVID just provide the cover to axe it for good?

Could this prove that CX is returning to SEA in NW25, possibly to codeshare with AS on N.American flights?

This table seems to be accurate to CX’s destinations, including new ones which haven’t launched such as BRU, but I’m not sure if this has been left since Covid
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c6b21ca8ec.png

You see Dublin and Cape Town there? This seems a chart dated back to pre-Covid era.

Starting from the 1st week of September, UO HKG- Ishigaki will reduce to 3 weekly from daily and HKG-Miyako seasonal service will reduce from 4 weekly to 3 weekly.

Oh never mind - guess Cathay doesn’t update their charts often to ensure accuracy

guess japan demand is severely falling off from that earthquake manga... HK people playing things safe it seems. i think most have went to mainland china/ thailand/ vietnam/ Malaysia instead.


these two routes as well as shiuozka appear to be cancelled starting from winter season too, and the extra planes go to PEN.

Hanoi also got 3 more night flights each week in winter schedule, on top of the daily early morning flights.

UO is having so much more terrible timing flights now, departing at very early morning (from 6ish am) or arriving HK at mid night (after 1am) or red eye flights.....good plane utilisation but terrible for travellers

It is very usual for other airports to start having flights from 6ish am so HK should learn from them.

Gonna jump on this convo as a fellow Sydneysider. I'm sure the government would accommodate if CX were to consider launching WSI, since there are only two international airlines, QR and SQ, committed so far (and each announcement came with a huge 7/9 news rubbish news coverage). However, I don't see CX moving or adding WSI anytime soon, given that CX138 can cover morning connections to the rest of Asia in HKG. SQ only launched because they had to; they don't have a late-night departure slot from SYD and SIN is closer to SYD, meaning it's gonna be a worse-than MH140/CX138 middle-of-the-night arrival even if they had the last slot before SYD curfew. Also, ditto on the diaspora point.

I believe there are noise restrictions before 7am which limit takeoffs, or at least certain post take-off routings over Hong Kong, at that time.

Not strictly related, but barring last minute changes, Delta is going to launch LAX-HKG with an A350. Link below:

https://onemileatatime.com/news/delt...xdQCzWnf4rglXw

Suprised they didn't do SEA given it has no flights ..

At this point LAX-HKG is becoming the new SEA-TPE. I don't see DL lasting a long time on this route though, given SkyTeam is really weak in HKG, combined with immense competition and the bad situation in US

This should hint that CX or/and AS will launch HKG-SEA?

Why are you so obsessed with SEA? The fact that even DL does not want to operate from their hub SEA to HKG tells us that SEA is just a very low-yield market. CX makes the right move to open the new route HKG-DFW instead.