Cathay Pacific expands services to key cities in summer schedule
Cathay Pacific Airways today announced the important expansion of a number of services in its summer schedule, including seven additional weekly flights to Beijing and a third daily non-stop flight to Los Angeles. Additional services will also commence to Amsterdam, Ho Chi Minh City, Johannesburg, Nagoya and Perth.
These new flights will further enhance Cathay Pacific’s global network, which now covers more than 90 destinations world-wide, and strengthen Hong Kong as a global aviation hub and gateway to the Chinese Mainland.
The seven additional weekly flights to Beijing follow on the heels of the recent launch of a daily freighter service to Shanghai and thrice-weekly service to Xiamen.
Cathay Pacific is the only airline that flies non-stop from Hong Kong to Los Angeles and offers more frequent services there than any other airline. The early departure and arrival of the new flight will offer greater choice of connections to all Cathay Pacific code share destinations across the United States.
Amsterdam and Johannesburg, now at five and six flights a week respectively, will become daily services, and Ho Chi Minh City will step up from a daily to double-daily operation. Nagoya will see another seven services a week on top of its double-daily schedule. Perth will move from three to four weekly flights and bring to 52 the number of direct flights the airline operates to six cities in Australia each week.
Cathay Pacific Director Corporate Development Augustus Tang said: “Increasing the frequency of services to double and even triple-daily to key cities is an important part of our growth strategy. Additional and daily services to other cities create a more convenient product for our customers, strengthen our network and thereby enhance Hong Kong’s global hub and Mainland gateway position.”
Flight details are as follows. New services in BOLD ITALIC
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX271 (From 2 June) | Hong Kong | Amsterdam | 0005/0640 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun |
| CX270 | Amsterdam | Hong Kong | 1400/0740+1 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun |
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX171 (From 2 April) | Hong Kong | Perth | 2355/0735+1 | Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat |
| CX170 | Perth | Hong Kong | 1220/2015 | Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun |
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX749 (From 4 April) | Hong Kong | Johannesburg | 2345/0655+1 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun |
| CX748 | Johannesburg | Hong Kong | 1250/0750+1 | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun |
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX884 (From 1 July, then daily from 1 Aug) | Hong Kong | Los Angeles | 1320/1135 | Tue, Thu, Sat |
| CX885 | Los Angeles | Hong Kong | 1320/1905+1 | Tue, Thu, Sat |
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX2056 (From 27 March) | Hong Kong | Nagoya | 0330/0825 | Tue, Weds, Thu, Fri |
| CX2057 | Nagoya | Hong Kong | 2215/0120 | Mon, Tue, Weds, Thu |
| CX536 (From 3 April) | Hong Kong | Nagoya | 1030/1525 | Tue, Thu, Sun |
| CX535 | Nagoya | Hong Kong | 1635/1935 | Tue, Thu, Sun |
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX765 (From 1 July) | Hong Kong | Ho Chi Minh City | 1625/1750 | Daily |
| CX764 | Ho Chi Minh City | Hong Kong | 1920/2300 | Mon, Wed, Sun |
| CX764 | Ho Chi Minh City | Hong Kong | 1855/2235 | Tues, Thu, Fri, Sat |
| Revised Beijing summmer schedule as follows: | ||||
| Flight number | From | Destination | Depature/Arrival |
Days of operations |
| CX312 (From 27 March) | Hong Kong | Beijing | 1650/2000 | Daily |
| CX318 (From 1 May) | Hong Kong | Beijing | 1750/2100 | Fri, Sat, Sun |
| CX2034 (From 12 April) | Hong Kong | Beijing | 0325/0635 | Tues, Wed, Thu, Fri |
| CX317 (From 27 March) | Beijing | Hong Kong | 0750/1120 | Daily |
| CX313 ( From 1 May) | Beijing | Hong Kong | 2100/0030+1 | Fri, Sat, Sun |
| CX2039 (From 11 April) | Beijing | Hong Kong | 2100/0030+1 | Mon, Tues, Wed, Thu |
* Existing daily service to operate to revised schedule
