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Flight KA896 from HKG to PVG came back to HKG after less than one hour in the air today. Does anyone know if it was a technical issue or a passenger issue?

cmiller11101

Technical issue only. I was on the flight. They could have continued on to PVG, but they don’t have crew there to repair the issue before taking off again. It was cheaper for them to return to HKG. They ended up swapping aircraft with one of the exact same configuration. They didn’t issue new boarding passes, but we had to board outfield from gate 512. We also got a new crew (including pilot) since this is a same-day turnaround flight now. Everything was handed very, very smoothly.

I forgot to ask what the problem was, but other than returning to the origin it was a totally normal flight.

I feel sorry for the people waiting in HKG. Our scheduled departure was 4PM from HKG and I think their departure is something like 8pm maybe... we didn’t finally deplane until almost 11pm due to waiting for health inspectors.

cmiller11101

By the way, the flight was almost entirely full. I had tried to take the same flight the day before but my waitlist didn’t clear. I was standby for this flight and got one of the “first class” seats at the last minute (I suppose thanks to being a DM). Today’s flight was also overbooked (-1).

HKG may be empty and CX may be in hibernate mode having cut a plethora of flights, but HKG-PVG seems to be alive and well. Lol.

Ausriver

The KA flights with F seats came with less total seats.. I wonder why KA doesn't use the ones with most seats for PVG,

CXFlyerBoy

there are people who are willing to shell out some ridiculous money for 2 hours in the cirrus seat

Ausriver

KA doesn't sell F seats to PVG