CX/AY question
Mar 20, 2009 | 2:13 pm
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CX/AY question
I'll be travelling from ICN to HEL via HKG with CX and AY in J class. My itinerary requires an over night stay in Hong Kong (late evening arrival, early morning departure). I was wondering if either company would be willing to provide me a hotel room or have a special promotion for that considering that I am travelling in business class and it is a ICN-HEL fare requiring a stopover.
Mar 22, 2009 | 5:34 pm
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I'll be travelling from ICN to HEL via HKG with CX and AY in J class. My itinerary requires an over night stay in Hong Kong (late evening arrival, early morning departure). I was wondering if either company would be willing to provide me a hotel room or have a special promotion for that considering that I am travelling in business class and it is a ICN-HEL fare requiring a stopover.
Mar 23, 2009 | 11:46 am
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So, I'm planning a DONE4 and have a similar dilemma to the OP, so I'll tack it on to this thread:
Basically, I can put together an itinerary with CX flying the Europe->Asia leg, but as a result I'll end up stuck in one of ICN, NRT or PVG overnight. Alternatively, I could fly on the AY nonstop to ICN and save the overnight.
Having never flown either CX or AY, I'm left to wonder: is CX's business class product sufficiently better that it's worth an extra overnight to choose it versus AY?
Basically, I can put together an itinerary with CX flying the Europe->Asia leg, but as a result I'll end up stuck in one of ICN, NRT or PVG overnight. Alternatively, I could fly on the AY nonstop to ICN and save the overnight.
Having never flown either CX or AY, I'm left to wonder: is CX's business class product sufficiently better that it's worth an extra overnight to choose it versus AY?
Mar 23, 2009 | 1:21 pm
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So, I'm planning a DONE4 and have a similar dilemma to the OP, so I'll tack it on to this thread:
Basically, I can put together an itinerary with CX flying the Europe->Asia leg, but as a result I'll end up stuck in one of ICN, NRT or PVG overnight. Alternatively, I could fly on the AY nonstop to ICN and save the overnight.
Having never flown either CX or AY, I'm left to wonder: is CX's business class product sufficiently better that it's worth an extra overnight to choose it versus AY?
Basically, I can put together an itinerary with CX flying the Europe->Asia leg, but as a result I'll end up stuck in one of ICN, NRT or PVG overnight. Alternatively, I could fly on the AY nonstop to ICN and save the overnight.
Having never flown either CX or AY, I'm left to wonder: is CX's business class product sufficiently better that it's worth an extra overnight to choose it versus AY?
If you do decide to overnight someplace, I'd pick NRT as the airport hotels there are generally very inexpensive compared to other locations.
Mar 23, 2009 | 2:02 pm
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Sorry, not positive about this product. BUT, if you can get on a CX A340 with old long haul business class, you'll be fine.
Mar 23, 2009 | 2:46 pm
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Is the CX seat substantially narrower than the NZ/VS seat? I find the NZ seat to be the most comfortable business class seat that I have tried, so I was perhaps optimistically hoping that the superficial similarities between the design of the seats would translate into similar levels of comfort as well...
Mar 23, 2009 | 3:24 pm
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I'm comparing doing something like LHR->HEL->ICN to LHR->HKG->ICN, so the useful comparison would be on the HEL->ICN sector versus something like LHR->HKG.
Mar 23, 2009 | 3:50 pm
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Sorry, I wasn't specifically referring to your post. My point was that if HKG-ICN is on regional J, rerouting to experience CX and having to overnight at HKG is not worth it, especially if a direct HEL-ICN is available.
Mar 23, 2009 | 4:26 pm
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Mar 23, 2009 | 5:53 pm
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(I think, all things being equal, I'd opt for CX over BA since I haven't tried CX in business, whereas I have/have had considerably more opportunity with BA.)