Stopovers/layovers

When I look at some Cathay and Malaysia flights on a travels website,
they very long stopovers at Hong Kong or KUL airports. For example, 26
hours in total from Australia to Japan.

If there is a 12-13 hour stopover, would the airline provide a hotel
room in/near the airport?

AA1 wrote:
When I look at some Cathay and Malaysia flights on a travels website,
they very long stopovers at Hong Kong or KUL airports. For example, 26
hours in total from Australia to Japan.

If there is a 12-13 hour stopover, would the airline provide a hotel
room in/near the airport?

Depends on the airline, class of service, and why you have a layover.
Definitely in business class if it is a mandatory stopover on your
itinerary virtually all airlines provide a room. Most don't for coach
passengers.

When I look at some Cathay and Malaysia flights on a travels website, they
very long stopovers at Hong Kong or KUL airports. For example, 26 hours in
total from Australia to Japan.

If there is a 12-13 hour stopover, would the airline provide a hotel room
in/near the airport?

JAL put up whilst travelling in scum class, with a 14hour layover in Tokyo.
This was a few years ago, travelling LHR-SYD.

i did a 9 hour stop in Dubai with Emirates and i didnt get a hotel???




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"Hilary" wrote in message
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When I look at some Cathay and Malaysia flights on a travels website,
they very long stopovers at Hong Kong or KUL airports. For example, 26
hours in total from Australia to Japan.

If there is a 12-13 hour stopover, would the airline provide a hotel
room in/near the airport?

Emirates still provide hotels for necessary connections longer than 8
hours (i.e. there are *no* flights with a shorter connection, not
just no available flights.) Singapore used to, not sure if they still do.

Are you sure that there are no connections at all? It may just be that
if you're searching for cheap flights there are no good connections as the
cheaper flights are already booked. If this is the case no airline will
provide a hotel.

Hilary

Emirates still provide hotels for necessary connections longer than 8
hours (i.e. there are *no* flights with a shorter connection, not just
no available flights.) Singapore used to, not sure if they still do.

Are you sure that there are no connections at all? It may just be that
if you're searching for cheap flights there are no good connections as
the cheaper flights are already booked. If this is the case no airline
will provide a hotel.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/nick.fr/cath.JPG

Those are the only Cathay flights that came up in that search - whether
I search for specific dates, or flexible dates.

Note that direct flying time is 8:50 h.

Singapore Airlines are providing us with a hotel room for an overnight
stopover of 9.5 hours. in November. We are travelling on Q - Economy Coach
tickets. Not sure if it will be worth going into the city to the hotel as
we will have to be back at the airport 2-3 hours before our 9.35 am
departure for Denpasar!

Sue Wright wrote:
Singapore Airlines are providing us with a hotel room for an overnight
stopover of 9.5 hours. in November. We are travelling on Q - Economy Coach
tickets. Not sure if it will be worth going into the city to the hotel as
we will have to be back at the airport 2-3 hours before our 9.35 am
departure for Denpasar!

Wow, that's an awkward schedule. Given the time of day, it's probably not
worth a trip into the city. The airport has more to do than any other, so
you won't be that bad off.

But you might want to check whether SQ has a better inbound flight. Where
are you flying from?

miguel
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Miguel Cruz wrote:
Sue Wright wrote:
Singapore Airlines are providing us with a hotel room for an overnight
stopover of 9.5 hours. in November. We are travelling on Q - Economy Coach
tickets. Not sure if it will be worth going into the city to the hotel as
we will have to be back at the airport 2-3 hours before our 9.35 am
departure for Denpasar!

Wow, that's an awkward schedule. Given the time of day, it's probably not
worth a trip into the city. The airport has more to do than any other, so
you won't be that bad off.

But you might want to check whether SQ has a better inbound flight. Where
are you flying from?

Good question. I'm trying to figure you what SQ flight gets into
Singapore around midnight from any place that has only one flight per
day. Seems like an odd schedule. Got to be a better way to work that
out.

Thomas wrote:

JAL put up whilst travelling in scum class, with a 14hour layover in Tokyo.
This was a few years ago, travelling LHR-SYD.

JAL still does for Economy passengers. My girlfriend just had a flight
Busan-Narita-Frankfurt and back including a free one night stay on each
direction at JAL's transit hotel at Narita. Ticket was rather cheap,
bought in Korea.

Till

Hi Miguel. We are flying from Toronto via Seoul. We were determined to
avoid transit through the US so this was the best we could get. A change at
this time even if possible would cost us $100 each, so I guess we will just
wait and see how we feel. May just stay in the airport and veg out for a
few days when we get to Bali. A friend just had 9 hours to kill in
Singapore airport and took advantage to the free city tour. Perhaps we will
be able to do that on the way back from Melbourne in May. Sue


But you might want to check whether SQ has a better inbound flight. Where
are you flying from?

miguel