TRIP REPORT | Cathay Pacific (Economy) | San Francisco to Hong Kong | Airbus A350-900

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Date: 19 April 2024
From: San Francisco International (SFO)
To: Hong Kong International (HKG)
Airline: Cathay Pacific
Aircraft: Airbus A350-900XWB
Flight Number: CX873
Registration: B-LRS
Seat: 65K, 69K
Flight time: 13 hours 46 minutes
Scheduled Takeoff Time: 00:15 PDT
Actual Takeoff Time: 1:07 PDT
Scheduled Landing Time: 6:00 HKT
Actual Landing Time: 5:53 HKT
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[Gazmeizster_Wongatron]

Love flying with Cathay. They may not be the absolute best as they once were, but they will always be a sentimental favourite of mine. My partner loves the instant noodles. 😂

[hungo]

A superb video underscoring the plush and refined services of Cathay Pacific on a long-haul flight.

[planepolite]

Really enjoyed the video! I have this flight coming up in a few months, I can't wait!

[mlaiworld]

Excellent video. CX always my favourite, very professional crew, efficient, friendly and considerate. Food quality was great, western dishes or oriental dishes, awesome mid night snacks. Love the hot bowl of instant noodles, nothing can beat that when woke up cold and hungry. Wish they renovate the fleet, especially those flying to SFO, always to last to get the announced upgrade.

[JaydenWong]

happy and glad you were able to switch to an earlier flight. Kudos to that manager. 
Korean Air delayed my LAX to ICN last year by over 5 hours, would've missed my connecting flight to SYD. I arrived at LAX a day prior from Miami, and before I headed to the airport hotel, I went to the check in desk & expressed my concern about the misconnection and how I have to be in SYD that day. The manager was unwilling to help. He said 'come back tomorrow and we will put you on another ICN SYD flight 24 hrs later... 
So at the end, I had to borrow someone's phone (didn't have free international calls) to ring up Korean Air's hotline and then they were able to route me via Honolulu to LAX and still make it to my SYD flight.

[michaelguerrero]

Really like Cathay Pacific. Service is awesome.

[PlaneGeekTravels]

Last time I travelled with CX, I also had the entire row to myself. I used all three seats as a makeshift bed. Felt like business class to me at Economy price 😂. Nice trip report 👍

[jamesmiller]

Great video. It reminds me of several round trips I made between the US and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 2004 and 2009. I always took an Asian carrier over the Pacific from LAX to Taipei or HK and then on to KL..I have flown on Korean Airlines, China Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and Eva Airlines. But I don''t think I ever flew on Cathay Pacific. All the Asian airlines were good to excellent. Flying back to the US was about 90 mins faster with the jet stream and I always felt relieved when I landed at LAX. I still had a 6-7 hour flight on a US carrier to my home in Columbus, Ohio. I will definitely consider Cathay Pacific if I ever fly to Asia again..Thanks for sharing...James, USA

[Kai-NikolausSchmitt]

More than 25 years ago i was lucky too with a 3 seat row for myself but in the B 744..amazing is still Cathay with airplanes and Services. Take care greetx from Frankfurt. Kai

[Zenpookie]

Advice for eating chicken at a buffet. Unless it is fried chicken or chicken in a sauce, after sitting more than 15 minutes under a heat lamp or over a warmer, the chicken dries out.

[PLi-fknf]

Nice video. Look forward for a video on a trip with A380 :)

[paulpayne]

I enjoyed this video very much, I am using Cathay Pacific business class from London to Manila via Hong Kong, looking forward to it. Great video 👍

[TripReportaviation]

Awesome trip report. I think it's due to 2 flights of CX departing only an hour difference, so passengers had options to choose so each flight wasn't very highly-loaded. And that helped you to have a full row, which was brilliant for this long flight

[DombrowskyTim]

I‘ve Never had a flight with CX but thank you for the insights. Nice Trip Report😊 Maybe next time i will choose CX for my Trip 🤙

[savoysumbe]

However, I noticed that flights with Cathay Pacific between Hong Kong and cities like London, Paris, and Milan in May and early June are extremely crowded, even though it's not considered peak season. This has been my experience both this year and last year.

[stunnymega]

first time i seen them do a bad landing very rare usually very talented pilots

[dougleonard]

and I am heading there to Cebu this month

[DavidHoughton]

Thanks for sharing ! Yeah i often fly London to HK and HK to Singapore on Cathay. Still a favourite airline to fly eh

[BluePlanet]

CX seem to have served the second meal prior to landing. My last few flights, CX served them mid flight so Pax were left hungry prior to landing, especially those who missed the second meal. I skipped using them due to this and the pandemic.

[walterwlim]

27:07 I flew CX last month HKG-SFO and the flight was close to 100% full.