Cathay Pacific Adding 4th Daily flight to JFK

[Iberia A340-600]

Effective May 2011 Cathay Pacific Airways will be adding a 4th daily flight between HKG and JFK. The new flight, CX845/856, will run on a late evening schedule:

CX846 HKG1830 – 2225JFK 77W D
CX845 JFK0120 – 0515+1HKG 77W D

Cathay Pacific currently has two daily nonstop flights and one daily flight via YVR.

[JZ]

Amazing. There is really that much traffic between HK and NY? Wonder if CX will stop the YVR/JFK leg in the future.

[CX777]

I have flown Cathay's. JFK - HKG route six times, twice with YVR stop. ALL OF MY FLIGHTS in both directions had at least 90% loads. With Cathay's excellent service, 15+ hour non stop has never been bad experience. Lastly, Cathay always have marketed
aggressively with lots of sale on these flights.

They will do great with 4/day.

Raj

[eric8669]

I have flown Cathay's. JFK - HKG route six times, twice with YVR stop. ALL OF MY FLIGHTS in both directions had at least 90% loads. With Cathay's excellent service, 15+ hour non stop has never been bad experience. Lastly, Cathay always have marketed
aggressively with lots of sale on these flights.

They will do great with 4/day.

Raj

I second that, Cathay's Service is great. 16 hours never went by so fast.

[megatop412]

I second that, Cathay's Service is great. 16 hours never went by so fast.

16 hours on a plane, Jesus H. Cristo

I think I would go bananas after that much time locked in a metal cylinder

[eric8669]

16 hours on a plane, Jesus H. Cristo

I think I would go bananas after that much time locked in a metal cylinder

You know, It was the one(roundtrip) and only time i've done it and i thought it was going to be crazy long, but with the entertainment, sleeping, being able to hang out in the galley for a couple hours it was really not bad. After the first 6 hours, you say to yourself, another 10 to go.lol

[gonzalu]

My longest flight ever was to Hawaii on Delta MD-11 which was I think 13 hours... it was really not bad at all... three two hour movies and a lot of sleeping... lucky for us we had the seats right by the door and had tons of room to lay out.