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CX 74B And 74J

Dauphin From Norway, joined Sep 2001, 90 posts, RR: 0
Posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 190 times:

Any differences in economy class between the two 747-400 of CX?

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Cathay Pacific From Australia, joined May 2000, 1848 posts, RR: 6
Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 181 times:

the only difference is the number of seat.....

74B has 322 Y class seats
74J has 239 Y class seats

the reason for this is because of the extra Business Class seats in the main deck, 74B has 25 and 74J has 62

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Cathay Pacific......The Heart of Asia Smile/happy/getting dizzy

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Dauphin From Norway, joined Sep 2001, 90 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 167 times:

Thanks, so the comfort or perhaps discomfort in Y class are the same in the both then?

Cathay Pacific From Australia, joined May 2000, 1848 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 164 times:

yep...pretty much the same.....

cathay pacific, now you're really flying

AFa340-300E From France, joined May 1999, 2084 posts, RR: 31
Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 152 times:

Hello,

Excuse me, but what are '74B' and '74J' please?

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alain Mengus

Cathay Pacific From Australia, joined May 2000, 1848 posts, RR: 6
Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 146 times:

74J is what CX refer as Premium...they have 62 J class seats in the main deck.....whereas, 74B is what they called Standard, with 25 J class seats....

i guess they use the premium 744 for routes that have more biz travellers.......

anyway. maybe someone can explain this more

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Cathay Pacific......The Heart of Asia Smile/happy/getting dizzy

cathay pacific, now you're really flying

AFa340-300E From France, joined May 1999, 2084 posts, RR: 31
Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 124 times:

Hello,

Any idea of the respective networks please?

Thank you,

Best regards,
Alain Mengus

CXFA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 122 times:

No respective networks.Served Sydney 4 times from August to October, once A330 and 3 B744, B & Js served the route.

However, i know that N.A routes operates the Js, with Europe also.Routes to Africa, Australia and Asia operates the Bs.That's all i can say.

Cheers,
Edwards

AFa340-300E From France, joined May 1999, 2084 posts, RR: 31
Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 114 times:

Hello,

So why is there a difference between the two?

Best regards,
Alain Mengus

Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 61
Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 108 times:

The difference is the ratio of business class seats to economy seats - where CX can sell more business class seats, they use the aircraft configured with the extra business class cabin - primarily long haul routes where there are many pax willing to spend the extra money for comfort. All of the aircraft are the same from a technical point of view.

While the "standard" configuration aircraft normally do not do Australia and Regional routes, its not a perfect world and sometimes the wrong aircraft will fly the wrong route.

Coach comfort is the same in both configurations, except that with less coach seats on the 74J, the main cabin is likely to fill up more quicky and you are less likely to have an empty seat next to you to spread out.

Dauphin From Norway, joined Sep 2001, 90 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 103 times:

In less than 2 weeks I will be on my way from London to Hong Kong on my first CX flight ever ( in a 74B). Hope that CX will match other Asian airlines I have tried (Thai and SQ).

......and by the way....which is the best beer in Hong Kong?

Red Panda From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Jun 2000, 1520 posts, RR: 6
Reply 11, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 75 times:

Calsberg...

and Tsing Tao Beer.

for your info
r panda

Hugo From United States, joined Nov 2000, 370 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 61 times:

The aircraft with larger J class cabins are also called "Super J" by CX staff... They are used on the JFK 888/889 flights. While the discomfort might be the same in the economy cabin, the difference is in the possibilty of an upgrade from Y to J. When Y class gets booked from JFK, pax have to be upgraded...it is well known to CX staff and frequent CX JFK travellers that upgrades are easier on 888/889.

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