Cathay Pacific debuted its newest path to Dallas Fort Value Worldwide Airport (DFW) on Wednesday, marking its sixth nonstop flight to the U.S.
The Oneworld alliance provider 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 economic system seats and 256 economic system seats, on the route. The airline has not mentioned whether or not it should 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 economic system, based on the airline’s web site. Premium economic 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 world entry and deepening the ties that drive innovation and commerce,” Sean Donohue, the CEO of DFW, mentioned in an announcement.
Cathay’s new route, unveiled final September, is a key reference to its accomplice 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 in recent times.
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Cathay mentioned in an announcement that vacationers on its new DFW flight can “hook up 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 by way of 2020, schedule information from aviation analytics agency Cirium Diio reveals. It canceled the flight through the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s unclear how the Trump administration’s commerce struggle with China will have an effect on the brand new flight. In accordance with information from the U.S. Division of Commerce, from January by way of March, worldwide arrivals into the U.S. from Hong Kong by air had been up practically 18% yr over yr; from China, they had 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), based on Cirium.
