Review of Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Taipei in Economy

Hello everyone, welcome to the second part of the trip in March 2026 from Munich to Taipei. This report will cover the flight from Hong Kong to Taipei with Cathay Pacific Airways. The Hong Kong-Taipei flight ranked the busiest cross-border airline route in 2025. In the past years, I usually flew with EVA Air for this route and my last flight with Cathay Pacific Airways to and from Taipei was already 8 years ago, in 2018. Coming back to this flight CX422, it is not a daily flight. In March 2026 there was only one flight for the whole month. Since then this flight is operating two times per week, on Saturday and Monday.

On the day of flight, I arrived very early in the morning with Taxi. I printed out the boarding pass from the automatic machine and headed directly to security check and immigration as I only had a hand luggage with me.

My face wash was with me in the hand luggage which I totally forgot. I got caught by the security check and had to dispose it. 

After passing through the immigration, I went to Men Wah Bing Teng to had a local breakfast. 

I spent about 30 minutes in the food court and then I visited the famous bridge to do some plane spotting. The sky was getting brighter.

1. Cathay Pacific Airways A321neo, B-HPK to Phuket as CX711 at 8:05am
2. Cathay Pacific Airways A321neo, B-HPQ to Bangkok as CX717 at 9:00am
3. Thai Airways A320neo, HS-TXO to Bangkok as TG628 at 7:50am

The Skydeck was literally empty.

View of the gate 6 & 7 

Cathay Pacific Airways A321neo, B-HPH to Hangzhou as CX958 at 7:45am.

Afterwards, I walked slowly and arrived at gate 62 at 6:32am. About 8 minutes later, boarding began. 

My ride to Taipei. B777-300ER, B-KPZ, delivered to Cathay Pacific Airways in March 2012.

My seat 39A. This is the first row bulkhead seat of the economy class, still equipped with Recaro CL3710 seats. The plane is 45J 48W 268M configured and 3-4-3 in economy class. Unlike long haul flight, no pillow or blanket were placed on the seat.

View from my seat with premium economy class in the front.

View out of my window.

PTV was mounted on the partition wall. A baby bassinet was available under the PTVs.

Seat pocket items.

At 7:01am, boarding was completed and our captain introduced us his crew members and informed us the flight time of 1 hour and13 minutes. A few minutes later, safety demonstration video was played.

Pushback was started at 7:17am.

Cathay Cargo B747-400, B-LIF was taking off ahead of us to Delhi as CX2345.

Reaching the holding point.

At 7:29am, we took off from runway 25C.

7 minutes after takeoff, seatbelt sign was turned off and I received the breakfast a few minutes later. There was only one choice with fried noodles and chicken congee. A bottle of water was also available on the tray.

The rest of the flight was really uneventful and I tried watching some shows like Tucci In Italy.

At 8:06am, our captain announced that we were 30 minutes to landing. 15 minutes later seatbelt sign was turned on.

Visibility was not very good over Taipei city.

At 8:42am, our plane landing on runway 23R. Total flight time was 1 hour and 13 minutes.

Passing through a Japan Airlines 737-800 JA312J, which would return later to Tokyo Narita airport as JA802.

Passing through the new terminal 3. The terminal was partially opened in December 2025 and expected to be fully opened in 2027. 

Reached the parking gate B4 in terminal 1. It took us 12 minutes taxiing to the gate.

Total flight route from Hong Kong to Taipei.

Thanks for reading!