Red Eye services. You’ve got to love them – the chance to get aboard a plane late at night, and arrive in another place (and probably in a different time zone to face a business day… or suffer the fatigue of the day for as long as you can take it.
The Cathay Pacific subsidiary – Dragonair – will be adding 4 more services a week between Hong Kong and Beijing, bringing the total services to 53 flights a week between the two cities by the Dragonair – with more if you add codeshares in.
The additional flight’s timetable looks like this:
KA996 DEPART HKG 22:40 ARRIVE 01:55+1, Operates Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday KA997 DEPART PEK 02:50 ARRIVE 06:25 Operates Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Booked equipment: Dragonair Airbus A320 Commences: 30th March 2014 Operates as above
A quick look at flights indicates on th 30th March there are a bucket load of flights, operate by Dragonair and also codeshared with Cathay Pacific and Air China, split by:
- Air China: 6 flights a day
- Cathay Pacific: 2 flights a day
- Dragonair 8 flights a day
Frequency alone is not one of the problems you’ll find on this route I suspect…