Well if we are playing "Top Trumps" .
My notes suggest 1st Asia service was actually British Airways in 1984 to Bangkok NOT Hong Kong !
From memory CX were sniffing and as I recall it was a pre-emptive strike to kill their enthusiasm.
Patchy was not the word.
Who could possibly forget BA021 L1011 via Munich Dubai Bangkok. Then HK. (assume you could fly to BKK unless it was a fuel stop , but not sure)
It then became a B747 via LHR which went via Delhi one day and Bombay the next staggering on until early nineties.
CX eventually came onto the route in 1989 CX289 operating one stop via FRA....
Yes two airlines to Hong Kong
It did for the BA service by about 1991 .......I think !
Last edited by Bagso; 28th Oct 2014 at 11:22.