CX255 Retimed to 8am for 4 days
Jun 25, 2010, 8:58 am
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CX255 Retimed to 8am for 4 days
Jun 25, 2010, 9:10 am
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Jun 25, 2010, 2:38 pm
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I'm extremely angry. I know someone who's on this flight and they phoned up CX, and got no proper answer on why the flight was being delayed like this. Instead they were put on a waiting list for the earlier flights and it's just really poor customer service. "Operational reasons" is simply not a good enough excuse!!!
Jun 25, 2010, 8:17 pm
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I suspect it must be their own internal problems otherwise they would be more than happy to assign blame to HKIA or BAA if it was some problem at either airport.
However, I wonder what kind of problem drags on for 4 days like this. Definitely unacceptable to give no reason, though, which is effectively what they've done.
However, I wonder what kind of problem drags on for 4 days like this. Definitely unacceptable to give no reason, though, which is effectively what they've done.
Jun 26, 2010, 1:37 am
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This has happened before (a search might turn up the old thread). I seem to remember the feeling was that CX had used up all its early landing slots at LHR and didn't want to pay the very large penalties for arriving too early.
Jun 26, 2010, 2:18 am
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I also feel that is the case, but why couldn't CX schedule that accordingly? Did they think that they could buy extra slots somewhere?
Jun 26, 2010, 6:53 am
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Confirmed news:
"Boeing mandated a pylon inspection across the 747-400 fleet world-wide. Cathay Pacific have to take aircraft out of service to carry out the checks and, as a result, both CX255 HKG/LHR tonight and tomorrow (26th and 27th June) will be re-scheduled to depart later in the morning."
"Boeing mandated a pylon inspection across the 747-400 fleet world-wide. Cathay Pacific have to take aircraft out of service to carry out the checks and, as a result, both CX255 HKG/LHR tonight and tomorrow (26th and 27th June) will be re-scheduled to depart later in the morning."
Jun 26, 2010, 7:04 am
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Confirmed news:
"Boeing mandated a pylon inspection across the 747-400 fleet world-wide. Cathay Pacific have to take aircraft out of service to carry out the checks and, as a result, both CX255 HKG/LHR tonight and tomorrow (26th and 27th June) will be re-scheduled to depart later in the morning."
"Boeing mandated a pylon inspection across the 747-400 fleet world-wide. Cathay Pacific have to take aircraft out of service to carry out the checks and, as a result, both CX255 HKG/LHR tonight and tomorrow (26th and 27th June) will be re-scheduled to depart later in the morning."
Jun 26, 2010, 4:24 pm
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startelegram.typepad.com/sky_talk/boeing
However, it talks about pylons on 767s, not 747s. Maybe Boeing realized the problem is bigger than just 767s?
Jun 26, 2010, 8:15 pm
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