HKG Charter Flights

[Grant G]

Gold Coast Airport has its arrival at 9.10am Qld time tomorrow morning, with a departure time of 10.20am.

Wonder if its flying back empty ??

[Brock L]

I'd say so Grant, we'll find out tomorrow anyway by how far down the runway it rotates.

[Brock L]

Well, looks like another flight will arrive on the Gold Coast at 0940 on Tuesday the 12th of February (departing HKG at 2240 local time the day before).

I came across this while searching "CX8159 Gold Coast" in Google. Looks like it's the itinerary provided by the travel group organising these charters. The passengers go to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand as well as the Gold Coast before flying back to Shanghai! All of this travel won't be on the Cathay aircraft however. http://www.80tian.com/xianlu/178150.html You will need Google Translate to translate it but the flight numbers and times remain the same.

[Brock L]

The third flight, CX8153, will depart HKG at 2245 on the 12th of February to arrive in OOL at 0945 on the 13th of February. So, in summary:

Tuesday 12th February
CX8159 arrive OOL 0940

Wednesday 13th February
CX8153 arrive OOL 0945

This will conclude the three Cathay charter flights, hopefully this is a stepping stone for regular commercial flights from HKG and/or mainland China. And also, happy Year of the Snake!

[Grant G]

There was a story in GC bulletin on the Weekend.

" 2015 on track subject to the economy for China Southern flights."

They also mentioned they are hoping for more Charter flights from Asia in the mean time.

[TERRY MAGEE]

Todays is B-LAA which diverted into OOL 19/12/08

[LMcConville]

Hi all,

Slot allocation shows a Cathay Pacific A330-300 charter to/from HKG on 28JUL14. The A330-300 planned is in higher density configuration with 307 seats.

CX8103 ETA0840 ex. HKG
CX8146 ETD1120 to. HKG

https://coordaus-public.sharepoint.com/ ... OL_DST.TXT

[LMcConville]

Hi all,

Cathay Pacific during Chinese New Year (late-February 2015) plans to operate a number of charter service on Hong Kong – Gold Coast route, on board 2-class Airbus A330-300 aircraft. For the moment, the oneWorld member plans 5 charter flights with following schedule.

CX8103 HKG1940 – 0640+1OOL 333 16FEB15
CX8103 HKG2120 – 0820+1OOL 333 19FEB15
CX8103 HKG2000 – 0700+1OOL 333 20FEB15
CX8157 HKG2200 – 0900+1OOL 333 26FEB15/27FEB15

CX8146 OOL0800 – 1450HKG 333 17FEB15
CX8146 OOL0940 – 1630HKG 333 20FEB15
CX8146 OOL0820 – 1510HKG 333 21FEB15
CX8146 OOL1110 – 1800HKG 333 27FEB15
CX8134 OOL1110 – 1800HKG 333 28FEB15

http://airlineroute.net/2014/12/30/cx-ool-feb15/

[Grant G]

Reminder the first arrives this Tuesday Morning.

[Stefan J Perkas]

B-HLM is scheduled to operate CX8103/8146 tomorrow morning. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BHLM

[Brandon Giacomin]

B-HLF is operating the first charter.

[Emil C]

B-LBF A330-343 operated CPA8103 yesterday and CPA8134 today.
This also marks the end of the charter flights for this year.

[Stefan J Perkas]

Afternoon all,

Subject to Government Approval, Cathay Pacific in late-July 2015 plans to operate 1 round-trip service on Hong Kong – Gold Coast route, on board Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The A330-300 will be operating in all-Economy Class service, which will be offered Business Class cabin as well.

CX8159 HKG2205 – 0905+1OOL 333 25JUL15
CX8158 OOL1035 – 1725HKG 333 26JUL15

Info from: http://airlineroute.net/2015/06/02/cx-ool-jul15/