Server: Solo
Airline: Cathay Pacific
Aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER (Oneworld)
Origin: Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong (HKG)
Destination: Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia (BNE)
Flight Number: CX157
Route: VHHH-YBBN
Seat Number: 1K (First)
Time En Route: 8 Hours 36 Minutes
Looking out at our aircraft, B-KQI, on a rainy day in Hong Kong. Oddly enough, the real B-KQI has only 6 windows behind the forward exit doors, 3 for each first class seat, unlike the 77W model in Infinite Flight.
Getting comfortable in our first class seat while the grounds crew loads up everyone’s baggage. Cathay Pacific is rapidly becoming an outlier among airlines as international first class becomes rarer and rarer. Cathay’s product, for what it’s worth, remains a bucket-list item for serious long-haul travellers, enjoying that same reverence that Singapore Airlines and Emirates’s first class enjoys. And they are proud of it, too. In 2019, a 1-way first class ticket on Cathay Pacific was every bit of $16 thousand dollars, with a round-trip being $23 and a half thousand. In return, you get to see why CX has long been in the top 5 airlines worldwide.
Pushing back
Roaring departure from HKG
Making the turn to the southeast for OCEAN
Turning south over Manila
Bit of rough air over Northern Maluku in Indonesia
On the ground at Brisbane
Taxiing back to the International Terminal
Parked at the gate
One last look at our General Electric GE90-115B-powered chariot