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AllInGoodTime
15th Feb 2006, 10:11
Hello

I have family members going to the UK with CX in April and are flying on flts CX251 HK to Ldn and CX 250 Ldn to HK. They want to be able to call up and try and reserve certain seats, can anyone tell me what A/C is used on these flts. The other flts on CX website say 747, but these flts say Eqv type A/C, does that mean the A340-600. If you could let me know that would be appreciated, thanks.

csd
15th Feb 2006, 10:22
Normally it is a 744. Regards

petitfromage
15th Feb 2006, 13:59
As csd says it is "normally" a 744.....but 250 is sometimes a 343 (never a 346) on some days of the week.

Your family are best to sign-up on the Cathay website. Then you can check in and pick your seats, online, before you fly. (Then you'll know for sure the acft type)

PF

energie
15th Feb 2006, 14:26
If they haven't already, they can join Asiamiles for free at asiamiles.com. That way, they can do the online check in and reserve their seats that way too

good luck

BusyB
15th Feb 2006, 15:02
Its usually a -400 but they do have different configs, best to do it thru the CX website or asiamiles.

Doctor Teeth
16th Feb 2006, 11:01
CX251 & 250 is operated by 747-400.
As far as I know it's the aircraft which spends the day in the hangar having work done on it. Arrives in the morning and departs in the evening.
The reason the timetable shows it as EQV is because the aircraft will most times be a 400 with a normal size business class cabin, occasionally a 400 with the extended business class cabin or a PW engined 400.

spannersatcx
19th Feb 2006, 14:42
From 26th March the 340-600 will be used on Mon/Wed/Fri from LHR on the last flt out at night, can't remember if that is the 250 or 254 there's so many now!

energie
19th Feb 2006, 16:53
From 26th March the 340-600 will be used on Mon/Wed/Fri from LHR on the last flt out at night, can't remember if that is the 250 or 254 there's so many now!

Really? I thought CX only has 3 B346 and it's used to fly HKG-JFK? how can they manage the time?

BTW, is HKG-LHR long enough distance to use a B346?

404 Titan
19th Feb 2006, 23:52
spannersatcx

Yep heard that the other day as well from the fleet office. It appears the A346 utilization hasn’t been high enough, probably because they spend so much time in the hanger, and airline planning have been told to increase it.

Big Picture
20th Feb 2006, 08:58
Yeh,
CX use the A340-600 on JFK, but they have the third aircraft which they are currently using on the SYD-HKG route, it looks like CX are going to use the third aircraft where they can best utilise the extra capacity. Obviously, during christmas/ new year the Sydney flights are chocka's, maybe HKG-LHR gets busy from late march? Or maybe they are tankering due to the fuel shortage at LHR? But man, that is a long way to take extra gas!
For info, Virgin use 600's on the LHR-HKG-SYD route.
BP

Doctor Teeth
20th Feb 2006, 09:01
Last CX flight of the day into LHR is the 253 and back to HKG is the 254.
It is scheduled to be a 346 from the end of March on Mon, Wed and Friday.