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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
In article . net,
Blake S wrote: Could be UA. Could be a longer than expected transit line. I did spend over 3 hours at the CX transit desk trying to negotiate something. Finally they gave me a pass to the Business Class lounge. Big deal. Thank you. You definitely win the prize on stamina alone. Better luck next time. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
"Whytoi" wrote in message ... In article . net, Blake S wrote: I could use the name of the staff at TPE that confirmed my connection. That way the transit desk people at HKG will know I'm telling the truth instead of some BS story. Might strengthen my case for compensation. Did you meet UA staff or CX staff at the transit desk? In my experience, when you connect to a different airline, it's always the connecting airline's agent you deal with. And UA does have staffs stationed at the transfer desk. And in my recollection, they are often some junior with limited experience. I can see how you can get delayed if you stood in line to re-check-in. A few times the queue can be slow due to flight irregularities. That's another reason why you should go with airlines with alliances and ones that can issue boarding passes for your full itinerary at the first point of contact. If CX was able to give you a boarding pass at TPE for your HKG outbound flight, then I'd say that you would have been able to go directly through security and be able to get on the flight at the same time as your luggage. UA's alliance on the TPE-HKG flight was TG, which at that time had only 2 inconvenient flights that would've caused me to spend an extra night in HKG. I met the CX staff after I deplaned. They told me that me connection has been rescheduled and that it is Cathay's responsibility to make sure I get home since Cathay was the first leg of the flight. I politely told them that I didn't want them to be responsible and I will be taking the UA connecting flight. Of course that didn't work. The CX junior staff person that I met could not answer any of my questions and told me to wait until we got to the transit desk. At that time someone would answer my questions. Well, to make a long story short, they made me wait for 3 hours and kept passing me off to other staff members. Basically, they wanted me to be quiet and wait 5 hours, get moved to economy class, and be happy about it. I was ****ed but I didn't raise my voice. I was conscience about not being an ugly American. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:37:40 +0000, Blake S wrote:
UA's alliance on the TPE-HKG flight was TG, which at that time had only 2 inconvenient flights that would've caused me to spend an extra night in HKG. SG used to have lots of flights on that route. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
In article , devil
wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:37:40 +0000, Blake S wrote: UA's alliance on the TPE-HKG flight was TG, which at that time had only 2 inconvenient flights that would've caused me to spend an extra night in HKG. SG used to have lots of flights on that route. There's still CI. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
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Whytoi wrote: In article , AJC wrote: Sigh. What immigration line? The passenger will be in international transit arriving from somewhere (Toronto?) and departing to Singapore, he never enters Hong Kong. Furthermore Hong Kong only has one terminal, so he can't take a shuttle to and from his terminal. There is a shuttle running the length of the main spine of the terminal which he may or may not use in one or other direction depending on which gates he has to transfer between. 55 minutes is enough to transfer between two CX flights at HKG. Further, CX hardly uses any gates at the top end of the Y. maybe now but back in 2001 all flights to/from BKK and KUL seemed to use it. CX didn;t open the Pier lounge there for no reason, you know. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
In article ,
AJC wrote: That's true, and they do seem to have first choice on the gates in the wings at the start of the terminal. --==++AJC++==-- There is the Pier CX lounge..... |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:00:12 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote: In article , AJC wrote: That's true, and they do seem to have first choice on the gates in the wings at the start of the terminal. --==++AJC++==-- There is the Pier CX lounge..... And I think its much nicer than the original CX lounge next to immigration. |
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