https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1741985-20240226.htm?spTabChangeable=0 Pilot Union saying CX is short about 1300 flight crews. CX is denying it. But either way, even of that number is exaggerated, just more evidences that CX is really short on flight crews, and they just can't be back to ...
Jump to postEX- China Airlines B-18212/B-18215(last B744P) are scrapped in Feb at TPE Is scrapping of these two PAX 744s actually done already or stored awaiting dismantling in Taipei or further movement to VCV ? There is still one that I saw parked outside the hangar by the 23L threshold. It has been cordoned...
Jump to postCX is starting to shed additional 77Ws. Does anybody know the projected date for first 77X? Let's hope they don't all end up scrapped! So many Asian airlines are dumping (relatively young) B77W's that the market values will be worthless. These frames may never fly again simply because they are wort...
Jump to postB777/A350 command with only 3000hrs. Unbelievable Triple that number and I'm still a little worried. It has been 4000hours for a long long time and many of our captains got their commands with that sort of experience levels. It has worked for CX for years and the safety record speaks for itself. Th...
Jump to postAnother Donghai 737-800 has arrived into HKG and is parked on a remote bay - presumably for GBA
Jump to postWhile 777-300 are getting old, not sure they fall in category as "mid-size", thought something like787-10 likely have great economics for regional missions. They can always reconfigure some of their older 77W IMHO if they need that capacity. Those 773A are mainly going to Japan plus ICN/B...
Jump to postMany of the pilots have hit their legal maximum hours and cannot fly. Reserve coverage is planned to cover crew sickness, which has not been higher than previous years but reserve coverage is thin because everyone is either already flying or maxed out. We are clearly pretty short or crew...
Jump to postI think China will succeed with commercial aircraft production faster than most people think. The holdup so far has been R&D and development, once that is sorted production lines can be built rather quickly. One of the reasons development takes so long is that they've designed an aircraft that ...
Jump to postHave Cathay Pacific made any noises about replacing their 777-300s in the next few years ? Quite a number of them are over 25 years now and include a prototype model. I would imagine they'll be looking to start replacing them at some point this decade. They're currently looking into an order which ...
Jump to postFirst time I have eaten decent on Cathay was the Frankfurt catered FRA-HKG flight I was just on. Pity all my business class flights on CX ex-HKG have been an utter disaster. Gotta have food in the lounge as anything on board is seriously awful (and small at that). I am sure it's worth it for cost r...
Jump to postFirst time I have eaten decent on Cathay was the Frankfurt catered FRA-HKG flight I was just on. Pity all my business class flights on CX ex-HKG have been an utter disaster. Gotta have food in the lounge as anything on board is seriously awful (and small at that). I am sure it's worth it for cost r...
Jump to posthttps://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20230525/s00002/1684952604593 Media: Of the three fired cabin crew, one of them is not ethnic Chinese, and do not speak Cantonese or Mandarin as their first language. Cathay: The company will hire flight attendants and pilot trainee from Mainl...
Jump to postLatest movement for 27 June 2023: MSN 597 Asiana A359 F-WZGA/HL8521, fifth test flight/ferried CHR->TLS: https://aviation.flights/aib/A350/597 Anyone knows the reason of this 4-months storage in CHR? Any link with the Asiana-Korean merge? There are still many planes parked and wrapped up in storage...
Jump to posthongkongflyer wrote:CX Flyboy wrote:I think they need more planes! Almost half a year ago they announced an additional 20+ planes over the next 4 years but they have received no more and still only have three 738s.
They ordered 737MAX
I think they need more planes! Almost half a year ago they announced an additional 20+ planes over the next 4 years but they have received no more and still only have three 738s.
Jump to postThere have been BNO holders heading back to HK to live after they realised the grass isnt always greener.
Jump to post900 hrs is what used to happen on the 777 fleet regularly. The A350 is still doing a lot of regional, if those flights are replaced with 777 it will free up aircraft and crew. Around 65% of all the flying is being done by the Airbus fleet at the moment, it used to be 45%. I agree, but with the 777 ...
Jump to postMost of our longhaul flights are pretty full at the moment. IMHO the airline would earn more and be more flexible if they just increased frequency with A350s back to what they used to be. They can’t add much more frequency with the Airbus fleet because the pilots (especially Captains) are maxed out...
Jump to postCathay Pacific to order Boeing 777-8F freighter Seems we are about to have another 777-8 customer. A conversion form the existing -9 order or just an additional order? Hopefully for Boeing, the latter. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/cathay-pacific-order-boeing-777-8f-freighter-s...
Jump to postI suspect that most of you making comments on this incident have not heard the actual recording (which was the conversation in "private", and not of the alleged incident that triggered it all in the first place). Probably not the smartest thing for that cabin crew to have said considering...
Jump to postI suspect that most of you making comments on this incident have not heard the actual recording (which was the conversation in "private", and not of the alleged incident that triggered it all in the first place). Probably not the smartest thing for that cabin crew to have said considering ...
Jump to postFolks, any views around the news below? I do feel bad for the CX pilots who are still receiving reduced pay, and that the morale seems low. https://simpleflying.com/cathay-pacific-warns-pilots-taxiing-slower-speeds/ As discussed in Hong Kong thread, pilots claim their pay 30% less than pre COVID ti...
Jump to postPassed through PEK today China airlines B-7877 (IIRC) looks pretty sad, it’s Parked up by terminal 2, engineless and cockpit covered up. Looks like it’s not flown since around 25th March when it’s flight got cancelled! Sadly only got a crappy picture on the phone Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ...
Jump to postIt would be perfectly reasonable to have a crew fly HKG-CGK-HKG, then HKG-DPS-HKG on two consecutive days with 12 hrs off between. They would be done 2 crew. The PER flight is done 3 crew. I don’t think it is as you suggest. The real key is those assets be it the aircraft or crew provide a better r...
Jump to postGreat! Thanks for clarifying. How does that work for in terms of aircraft utilisation though? As things stand, one of the A359s spends three nights in MAD (Thu-Sun) before heading back to HKG. I'm not sure how that works for CX. Sorry to bring up an old post, but at the moment CX is operating split...
Jump to postAn ex Cathay Dragon A320ceo B-HSM flew ASP-DRW-HKG today. Is this one going to join the Cathay Pacific fleet or is it just having a maintenance check before heading to another operator (or the scrapman)? How many ex Cathay Dragon aircraft have entered service with Cathay Pacific? https://globe.adsb...
Jump to postaristoenigma wrote:Hi VCVSpotter have you seen the 744 Combi (Longtail VQ-BWL/ex-KLM PH-BFW) at VCV? I wonder if it is still intact and with engines?
After what has been a really tough last few years for Cathay, it is great to see significant progress being made with regards to increasing capacity and network restoration- with the airline reported to be targeting 70% pre-covid capacity by the end of this year, with full pre-covid capacity to be ...
Jump to postAll flight departs from Hong Kong including CX delay due to system fault To be more specific, the computer system at the HKG airport crashed affecting check-in aisles A-E. These are the aisles usually used by CX and therefore check-in for Cx flights was affected. They moved to different aisles that...
Jump to postWhat’s their B777 fleet utilization like at the moment? Many are still stored in ASP but they are very slowly being brought back - some for service and some for return to the lessor. The ones that are active (ERs especially) are nowhere near as busy as they normally would be. The -300s are a little...
Jump to postCX Flyboy wrote:
The A359 (and 35K) are pretty much all unparked by now (Just going through FR24 data, only B-LQD is parked right now). Something like half of their 330s are still parked, though.
I have a burning question on CX: At MAD airport last Saturday 4th Feb at 10AM local time I saw two Cathay Pacific A359s. I found this odd as CX was only due to operate one MAD-HKG flight that day and operates 4 weekly frequencies overall. Does anyone know why there was a second plane parked at Madr...
Jump to postJ343 wrote:Where do CX deploy them?
Does anyone know what happened to all of those fifth freedom flights that Cathay Pacific flew within Asia? I remember they had a focus city operation at TPE where they flew to NRT, KIX, ICN, and I think a couple other Japanese cities. They also flew BKK-SIN. It appears that those routes are all gon...
Jump to postAnd is Cathay forced to hire only Permanent HK residents for pilots? So many of my contacts looking to become junior pilots that hold EU and North American passports want to fly for Cathay, but can't, because of the HK Permanent resident requirement! And they studied at flying schools on par or sup...
Jump to postI'm not sure why he would say that to them although it wouldnt surprise me if most of them don't want to come back anyway, although having said that some have come back already. Think there are more SOs than CN at the moment, then there is the new cadets coming, DEFO and DECN. They were all intervi...
Jump to postYes we are currently already recruiting foreign nationals again as FOs. We will shortly be hiring foreigners as SOs too. Thanks a shame, the 100 SOs that were terminated have not been employed again, and many were checked to line. TB emailed them last week basically saying we encourage you to look ...
Jump to postQuestion from a new poster in the thread, but a long time CX fan. How are CX going with tech crew, I understand they lost a lot of expat tech crew. I’m sure the same for cabin crew, but probably easier to reopen some offshore bases. Will CX return to recruiting non-HKG nationals, or change strategi...
Jump to postwjcandee wrote:CX Flyboy wrote:Spacepope wrote:
Yeesh. Almost put those Pratt pods in the dirt. Glad it worked itself on out.
Apparently the nacelle did actually contact the ground but minor damage only.
I thought it contacted some lights.
Sporty landing of 9H-MSK of Mesk Air in EBOS on the 23th of November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GbyOg0ZdA&ab_channel=patrickvereecke Yeesh. Almost put those Pratt pods in the dirt. Glad it worked itself on out. Apparently the nacelle did actually contact the ground but minor damage only.
Jump to postI'll repeat myself in saying that CX has no intention to give up on the 779 despite what some of you are speculating. The numbers could be fine tuned however. Freighterwise, ive not heard much internally about whether they are pro-350F or 778F. As for the A321Neo, as they saw during the pandemic, th...
Jump to postSo time to make bets. ;) For cargo, 777-8 seems like a natural choice in view of their 777-9 order. For medium-haul, more 321N's seem a given. But the A330s replacement will be an interesting one. IMO it's highly debatable at this moment whether CX will ever take delivery of the 779's sue to a sign...
Jump to postHongkong is part of China now and thus Cathay Pacific is essentially a Chinese airline, thus I think we should also consider politics playing part in this future order. Both Airbus and Boeing have suitable aircraft for Cathay's requirements. So I guess this comes down to a combination of pricing an...
Jump to postN827KW recently moved from HKG to MCI, has this been converted to for cargo ops or something else? I know plane spotters is not the best information source, but a photo in September shows parked out Haeko in HKG presumably for Mx. It was sitting around without a lot of activity around it for ages s...
Jump to postHong Kong is China, and China is a friend of Russia. Cathay stopped flying over Russia not because they were ordered to.
Jump to postAir Atlanta's 747-400BCF TF-WFF ferried CGK-HKG today. It has large Fly Meta titles in english and chinese with a blue stylized 8 symbol on the tail. No info on the company which was founded just months ago in HKG. Presumably a logistics company.
Jump to postIs CX845 (JFK-HKG) now officially the longest A35K flight in the world? :cheerful: 8800 miles, the flight on Monday was in fact 18h33m, wondering what the payload restrictions looks like on that flight, assuming little to no cargo carried? Flight time planned at 16hr11m, 100 empty seats, 9tonnes sh...
Jump to postIs CX845 (JFK-HKG) now officially the longest A35K flight in the world? :cheerful: 8800 miles, the flight on Monday was in fact 18h33m, wondering what the payload restrictions looks like on that flight, assuming little to no cargo carried? Flight time planned at 16hr11m, 100 empty seats, 9tonnes sh...
Jump to postEllofiend wrote:f35 wrote:Top Contenders for the 5 QR ntu A350-1000 aircraft?
- JAL
- BA
EastarJet (NTU) 737MAX8 HL8370 ferried MWH-VCV as BOE862 for paint. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/hl8370 Horizon Air Q400 filed DEN-VCV 12:48PM - 2:22PM as QX9986. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/qx9986 2 notables in this one: the start of the Chinese MAX NTUs being sold el...
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