cathay just announced today a NEW (sat 28th dec) order for a futher 3 777-300ers and 1 more 747-8F....jees.... i can smell an interim deal for the -8i even stronger now!! come on tdracer let's get this deal done
With 14 8F's, it would most likely be easy for them to use some 8i's as a sub-fleet without it being too taxing in terms of maintenance and spares. It would definitely be great, in my opinion, to see some Intercontinentals in CX livery, not to mention just having another major customer for the 747-8 that would be flying both variants.
Perhaps there will be something after they get their 3 recently delivered PIP birds flying missions for a few months and they see what those numbers look like.