Cathay Pacific debuted its newest path to Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) on Wednesday, marking its sixth nonstop flight to the U.S.
The Oneworld alliance service is providing 4 weekly flights between Hong Kong Worldwide Airport (HKG) and DFW. Flights depart DFW at 10:55 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and land at HKG at 4:35 a.m. two days later; they depart HKG at 4:05 p.m. and land at DFW at 5:55 p.m. the identical day.
Cathay is flying an Airbus A350-1000, which has 46 business-class seats, 32 premium financial system seats and 256 financial system seats, on the route. The airline has not stated whether or not it would fly its new Aria business-class suite on flights to DFW.
Award seats on Cathay’s new route can be found for as few as 47,000 Asia Miles factors one-way in financial system, in response to the airline’s web site. Premium financial system seats begin at 75,000 factors one-way, and business-class seats begin at 115,000 factors one-way. Know, although, that seat availability is restricted.
“We’re excited to welcome Cathay Pacific and open a brand new nonstop gateway between Hong Kong and North Texas, enhancing international entry and deepening the ties that drive innovation and commerce,” Sean Donohue, the CEO of DFW, stated in a press release.
Cathay’s new route, unveiled final September, is a key reference to its associate American Airways. DFW is American’s largest hub and the second-largest hub within the U.S. after Delta Air Strains’ hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL). This hub creates immense connectivity for American’s worldwide companions and has attracted new long-haul flights to DFW on Cathay, Fiji Airways, Qantas and others lately.
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Cathay stated in a press release that vacationers on its new DFW flight can “connect with home locations within the U.S., in addition to locations in Central and South America.”
American flew the Dallas-to-Hong Kong route from 2014 via 2020, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium Diio exhibits. It canceled the flight throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s unclear how the Trump administration’s commerce battle with China will have an effect on the brand new flight. Based on knowledge from the U.S. Division of Commerce, from January via March, worldwide arrivals into the U.S. from Hong Kong by air have been up practically 18% yr over yr; from China, they have been up practically 134% yr over yr. That compares to falling numbers for vacationers from Canada and Western Europe.
Cathay feeds lots of its U.S. flights from Hong Kong with connections from China and Southeast Asia.
Along with DFW, Cathay serves Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS), Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport (ORD), Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) and San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO), in response to Cirium.
