Continental NY to HK

Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?


Thanks,


Eric

In article ,
(Eric Le Donne) wrote:

Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?

Damn long flight in the back. Distance-wise, the longest scheduled
commercial non-stop flight operating year-round in both directions.

Actually I dont think they have any direct flights from NY to BKK, you must
go through Hong Kong.

My friend is a pilot and he says it is a nice flight. I suggest Cathay
Pacific as the airline of my choice (they are a great airline to fly with)
I have only flown Cathay and they were great, the food was good and the
plane was roomy to me, the individual screens on the headrest was nice too
for games, movies, tv shows, radio....anything. I flew coach and I would do
it again if I had the time and money. If you plan to go to more than one
country check out their "all asia pass".

Doug

PS Continental does not have direct flights every day of the week from NY
to BKK, some days you have to go though Japan.




"Eric Le Donne" wrote in message
m...
Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?


Thanks,


Eric

Actually I dont think they have any direct flights from NY to BKK, you must
go through Hong Kong.

My friend is a pilot and he says it is a nice flight. I suggest Cathay
Pacific as the airline of my choice (they are a great airline to fly with)
I have only flown Cathay and they were great, the food was good and the
plane was roomy to me, the individual screens on the headrest was nice too
for games, movies, tv shows, radio....anything. I flew coach and I would do
it again if I had the time and money. If you plan to go to more than one
country check out their "all asia pass".

Doug

PS Continental does not have direct flights every day of the week from NY
to BKK, some days you have to go though Japan.




"Eric Le Donne" wrote in message
m...
Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?


Thanks,


Eric

In article ,
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:15:55 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote:

In article ,
(Eric Le Donne) wrote:

Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?

Damn long flight in the back. Distance-wise, the longest scheduled
commercial non-stop flight operating year-round in both directions.

That's obvious. He was asking whether it's any good and it's fine,
particularly, of course, if you're in BusinessFirst. In the back it's

Actually I'd say it's fine *only* if you're in BF

also ok by economy standards, with individual screens in each seat.
The top advantage, of course, is getting there about 5 hours or so
faster than you can otherwise.

In article ,
"Doug T" wrote:

Actually I dont think they have any direct flights from NY to BKK, you must
go through Hong Kong.


hmm, what has BKK have to do with this subject?

My friend is a pilot and he says it is a nice flight. I suggest Cathay
Pacific as the airline of my choice (they are a great airline to fly with)
I have only flown Cathay and they were great, the food was good and the
plane was roomy to me, the individual screens on the headrest was nice too
for games, movies, tv shows, radio....anything. I flew coach and I would do
it again if I had the time and money. If you plan to go to more than one
country check out their "all asia pass".

Doug

PS Continental does not have direct flights every day of the week from NY
to BKK, some days you have to go though Japan.

CO has never flown to BKK as far as I know. Maybe on a codeshare of NW.




"Eric Le Donne" wrote in message
m...
Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?


Thanks,


Eric

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:15:55 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote:

In article ,
(Eric Le Donne) wrote:

Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?

Damn long flight in the back. Distance-wise, the longest scheduled
commercial non-stop flight operating year-round in both directions.

That's obvious. He was asking whether it's any good and it's fine,
particularly, of course, if you're in BusinessFirst. In the back it's
also ok by economy standards, with individual screens in each seat.
The top advantage, of course, is getting there about 5 hours or so
faster than you can otherwise.

Quoting (Eric Le Donne) regarding Continental NY to HK
in a message dated 7 Oct 2003 20:42:29 -0700:

Hi all,

Has anybody flown to HK from NY on that direct flight from
Continental? Is it any good? Any particular comments ?


Thanks,


Eric

I've flown it several times, and plan to again in another month or so. BTW,
it's actually Newark NJ (EWR) not JFK in NY.

As others have said, it's a great flight if you're in BF. And that's the only
way I've ever flown it. 16 hrs West bound, and you get to within 50 miles of
the North Pole, but it's dark by that time and you really don't get to see it.
I'd say about 1/2hr to 45 min less Eastbound, perhaps up to an hour or more
with a decent tail wind.

If you've ever flown a CO 777 in BF, it's pretty much the same thing, just a
lot longer. I've flown both the EWR--HKG and NRT flights and their fairly
identical, except for the international menu choices and the non-English flight
announcements (the HKG flight has announcements in both Cantonese and Mandrin).

All seats in BF have Laptop Ports as do selected seats in Economy (check the CO
website for exactly where in ECO, but I think it's like Rw 16-23 or something
like that). Supposedly, all CO 777s now have the new seats that have 170°
reclining seats and the pre-programed positions etc. They are nice, and worth
the upgrade hassles.



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