Review of Cathay Pacific flight Hong Kong → Singapore in Economy

23 Apr 2009
Cathay Pacific
CX 691
Hong Kong (HKG) - Singapore (HKG)
A330-300
B-HLF
Economy Class

Transiting in Cathay land.


Finally not a B773. B-HLF


Boarding. The flight is only about half full.


Waiting for pushback. 2 dragons beside.


Taxi to runway. See how bad the weather is in the background.


A fellow A330 taking off.


Took off into the dusk.


Peanuts and drinks service. Beers were offered in cans.


Watching Yes Man on IFE.


Cabin service


Dinner's coming.


Dinner is served. Beef with pasta or chicken with rice. The beef was ok but only fruits were available as appetizer and the dessert was only a miserly Tim Tam biscuit. Must be cost-cutting in action. No good! I remembered CX used to serve Haagen Daz ice-cream as dessert on HKG-SIN flights. Where's the ice-cream now??
If you notice, on every meal tray, there is a small card of different designs advertising CX. Must be their latest advertising campaign.


Coffee service after meal.


More drinks for you, Sir?


Midflight, the Inflight Service Manager went down the aisle and randomly picked a few passengers to fill up a survey form. I was one of those picked by her. The survey form was quite detailed and I rate CX quite highly in all areas except for their dessert, which was downright poor compared to the competition. For completing the form, I was also given a nice CX pen, which looks much nicer even than the ones that SQ offers in First class. Should have asked for more pens and playing cards! :tongue:


Quite empty flight.


IFE screen just after landing.


Back in SIN.