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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
Planning a trip to Asia. Will this work: Arriving on Cathay CX 829
to Hong Kong at 8:00AM and need to make a connecting Cathay flight CX 717 for Singapore leaving at 8:55AM. I'll be arriving in Hong Kong from Toronto. I've never flown to Hong Kong before, so I don't know if 55 minutes will be enough to catch my connecting flight to Singapore. Do I have to worry about customs, distance between terminals or checking in? Many thanks, Jim |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
"Jim Louis" wrote in message m... Planning a trip to Asia. Will this work: Arriving on Cathay CX 829 to Hong Kong at 8:00AM and need to make a connecting Cathay flight CX 717 for Singapore leaving at 8:55AM. I'll be arriving in Hong Kong from Toronto. I've never flown to Hong Kong before, so I don't know if 55 minutes will be enough to catch my connecting flight to Singapore. Do I have to worry about customs, distance between terminals or checking in? Many thanks, Jim I wouldn't try it if I were you, especially if you're buying 2 separate tickets. Cathay uses gates all over this huge airport and there's no way to know far in advance which gate the Cathay flight will use. Also, you still have to transfer upstairs and sometimes wait in a line to do so. I did something similar last year and Cathay was about an hour late. I missed my UA connection and Cathay treated me like sh*t. First, they made me wait almost 6 hours for another CX flight, when they could've booked me on a number of other carriers. Then, they exchanged my business class UA ticket and gave me an economy seat on an 11 hour flight to YVR. They told me to get a refund from UA after I got back. Then, they didn't want to let me use their business class lounge during the layover, since, after all Cathay had already downgraded me to economy class. I did get some recourse later on but not enough to get that bad taste of terrible Cathay service out of my system. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:24:57 GMT, "Blake S"
wrote: Also, you still have to transfer upstairs and sometimes wait in a line to do so. I assume this is the same security rescreening between floors that they used to have at Kai Tak.. for the OP, no customs, no immigration when just transiting an airport between international flights almost anywhere except in the US. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it in an hour. It's online, and assuming it's on one ticket, CX sold it and thinks it's OK. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:24:57 GMT, "Blake S"
wrote: Also, you still have to transfer upstairs and sometimes wait in a line to do so. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
Jim Louis wrote:
Planning a trip to Asia. Will this work: Arriving on Cathay CX 829 to Hong Kong at 8:00AM and need to make a connecting Cathay flight CX 717 for Singapore leaving at 8:55AM. I'll be arriving in Hong Kong from Toronto. I've never flown to Hong Kong before, so I don't know if 55 minutes will be enough to catch my connecting flight to Singapore. It's one ticket, and they sold it to you that way? I'd guess it's fine. It's a pretty efficient airport. miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
"Jim Louis" wrote in message
m... Planning a trip to Asia. Will this work: Arriving on Cathay CX 829 to Hong Kong at 8:00AM and need to make a connecting Cathay flight CX 717 for Singapore leaving at 8:55AM. I'll be arriving in Hong Kong from Toronto. I've never flown to Hong Kong before, so I don't know if 55 minutes will be enough to catch my connecting flight to Singapore. Do I have to worry about customs, distance between terminals or checking in? Many thanks, Jim Hong Kong is a very efficient (usually hassle-free) airport. On one occasion I was booked on the 21:35 Qantas flight to Sydney. My late running China Southern flight arrived at 21:20. I had not checked in for my 21:35 Qantas flight to Sydney because through check-in to Qantas flights ex-HKG is not available in China. However, Qantas knew I was coming because I had checked my luggage through to Sydney and this information had obviously been relayed to Qantas by China Southern's computer system. A Qantas person was waiting for me at the arrivals gate and checked my ticket, and relayed the info to the staff at the gate, as we ran to the departure gate. I just made the flight. My luggage didn't make it (the ground staff at HKG had told me it wouldn't make it), but was delivered to my office in Sydney a few hours after I arrived (it must have come on the later Cathay flight). Of course, you can't always rely on that level of service, but Hong Kong is an efficient airport and I have always found the ground staff to be helpful. I've connected through Hong Kong about 12 times in the last two years, often on tight connections without a boarding pass for the onward flight, and I've always made the connection. Martin |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
In article , MS
wrote: "Jim Louis" wrote in message m... Planning a trip to Asia. Will this work: Arriving on Cathay CX 829 to Hong Kong at 8:00AM and need to make a connecting Cathay flight CX 717 for Singapore leaving at 8:55AM. I'll be arriving in Hong Kong from Toronto. I've never flown to Hong Kong before, so I don't know if 55 minutes will be enough to catch my connecting flight to Singapore. Do I have to worry about customs, distance between terminals or checking in? Hong Kong is a very efficient (usually hassle-free) airport... I concur. Major Asian airports are very efficient and security checks are far more sensible and better staffed than N American airport procedures. And for passenger with tight connections, airline staffs (especially at their home hub airport) typically would wait at the arriving gate and escort/direct you to the departure gate. Given that CX is selling you both the inbound and outbound flights on the same ticket, you are almost guaranteed to be safe. And trust me, you won't be the only passenger on that itinerary. Even if there's irregular operations, CX would take care of any further arrangements before you can open your mouth. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
In article . net,
Blake S wrote: I wouldn't try it if I were you, especially if you're buying 2 separate tickets. Cathay uses gates all over this huge airport and there's no way to know far in advance which gate the Cathay flight will use. Also, you still have to transfer upstairs and sometimes wait in a line to do so. I did something similar last year and Cathay was about an hour late. I missed my UA connection and Cathay treated me like sh*t. First, they made me wait almost 6 hours for another CX flight, when they could've booked me on a number of other carriers. Then, they exchanged my business class UA ticket and gave me an economy seat on an 11 hour flight to YVR. They told me to get a refund from UA after I got back. Then, they didn't want to let me use their business class lounge during the layover, since, after all Cathay had already downgraded me to economy class. I did get some recourse later on but not enough to get that bad taste of terrible Cathay service out of my system. You can't really blame CX for that. CX has no alliance with UA and you can't expect CX to bump a scheduled passenger just for you on what sounded like a sold-out business class. There's nowhere in the contract with the airline to say that they have to replace a business class seat with another on another airline. Well, that's where a) your travel insurance comes in, and b) you should have booked all your sectors on the same airline so they can take more ownership of you. As a minimum, stay with two airlines that has a good alliance. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
Thanks for all the replies so far. It's not one ticket; it's actually
part of the All Asia Pass that we're working on. My travel agent did contact Cathay with our preliminary flight itinerary and Cathay approved it so that's why I'm assuming an hour is enough time. Since it's my first stop I don't mind so much if my inbound Hong Kong flight is late and Cathay has to put me on another Singapore flight. As long as they'll cover the costs and not shirk the responsibility I'll be fine. There are a couple of flights later in the day to Singapore and those are what I guess they'll put me on if the inbound Hong Kong flight makes me miss my original Singapore flight. Thanks again, Jim L. |
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Will I make this connecting flight at Hong Kong International Airport?
What you will have is a normal CX connection in HKG. I have flown CX quite a
few times through HKG, and have even had one extensive trip using the All Asia Pass. Some of the connections that I had in HKG were on the order of 45 min to 1 hr. There was only the security screening to get upstairs to the departures level to go through, and it really doesn't take that long to get to any gate from that point (if you don't dawdle...). Almost all of my trans-Pacific crossing flights were early (from LAX). So, you should be OK. Enjoy your trip. Cheers, Bob "Jim Louis" wrote in message m... Thanks for all the replies so far. It's not one ticket; it's actually part of the All Asia Pass that we're working on. My travel agent did contact Cathay with our preliminary flight itinerary and Cathay approved it so that's why I'm assuming an hour is enough time. Since it's my first stop I don't mind so much if my inbound Hong Kong flight is late and Cathay has to put me on another Singapore flight. As long as they'll cover the costs and not shirk the responsibility I'll be fine. There are a couple of flights later in the day to Singapore and those are what I guess they'll put me on if the inbound Hong Kong flight makes me miss my original Singapore flight. Thanks again, Jim L. |
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