Cathay Pacific pulls A340s out of Europe

It seems as Cathay Pacific moves their fleet around, aircraft are being switched out in favour of different planes.

This is visible in Cathay Pacific’s plans to switch out Airbus A340-300s for Boeing 777-300ERs on their from Amsterdam, Paris and Rome.

Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300ER at London Heathrow – Image GhettoIFE.

First to switch over will be the service to Amsterdam, which will go over to a Three Class Boeing 777-300ER (from an A340-300) on 1st November 2014.

Amsterdam – Hong Kong – 77W showing.

Rome will follow, a Three Class Boeing 777-300ER (from an A340-300) on 2nd January 2015.

Rome FCO to Hong Kong – 777-300ER showing.

Finally the 2nd Paris service (which is suspend between 25th October 2014 and 9th January 2015) will operate Three Class Boeing 777-300ER from 10th January 2015 on a three time a week basis on flight pair CX278/279.  Those who want an extra class from Paris to Hong Kong can use CX260/261 pair which continues to operate on a daily basis.

Paris CDG to Hong Kong – Both showing 777-300ERs

Checking the booking engines, these flights are visible and are available to book.

From a comfort perspective, there are more seats aboard a 777-300ER (in either configuration), with those in economy class probably going to have to get used to a 9 across configuration as opposed to an 8 across configuration aboard an A340.

Still, it adds extra capacity between Europe and Hong Kong – always helpful when trying to locate seats, revenue or otherwise…