Swiss moving from PEK to PKX
Jan 22, 2020, 9:57 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2019
Programs: Swiss Senator, Flying Blue Gold, BA EC Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 330
Swiss moving from PEK to PKX
I just received an email from Swiss that they will be moving their Beijing flights from PEK (Capital) to PKX (Daxing, the brand new one), as of March 28.
Having just departed from PKX this morning on BA I can confirm that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The airport is in the middle of nowhere but very far from it’s capacity therefore so far very efficient.
Having just departed from PKX this morning on BA I can confirm that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The airport is in the middle of nowhere but very far from it’s capacity therefore so far very efficient.
Jan 22, 2020, 1:09 pm
#2
Join Date: Jan 2007
Programs: LH SENATOR
Posts: 1,038
Since the airport is not yet fully utilized it enabled LX to finnally get much better slots. The route was very poorly performing, hence with the new timings they will hopefully be able to improve both loads and yields on the route.
Jan 23, 2020, 3:21 am
#3
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SIN (with a bit of ZRH sprinkled in)
Posts: 9,453
The route was almost always overbooked in Y since they must have offered extremely cheap prices. I think my OpUp rate on it was something like 90% Y->C (over the base of 7 or 8 years and around 15 RTs)
But the flying schedule was really brutal PEK->ZRH (and I didn't liked it either ZRH->PEK) - albeit it meant you could use a taxi/didi without worry about traffic, but you literally gave away your last nights proper sleep and at least for me, jetlag was worse when compared with proper daytime flights (like the 1pm departures that reach Europe roughly 6pm)
Probably new flight schedule means less cheap Y prices and less OpUps thus, so a bit sad
But for premium travel, definitely a big improvement.
But the flying schedule was really brutal PEK->ZRH (and I didn't liked it either ZRH->PEK) - albeit it meant you could use a taxi/didi without worry about traffic, but you literally gave away your last nights proper sleep and at least for me, jetlag was worse when compared with proper daytime flights (like the 1pm departures that reach Europe roughly 6pm)
Probably new flight schedule means less cheap Y prices and less OpUps thus, so a bit sad
But for premium travel, definitely a big improvement.