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16 October 2016
The Final Flight of Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400, First Class service from Tokyo/HND to Hong Kong, on 1st Oct 2016
The Final Flight of Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 on 1st Oct
On the 1st October 2016, Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 was retired. The final flight was very festive and heartwarming atmosphere, presented by Cathay Pacific skilful cabin crews. I had a very happy travel with Japanese bloggers Tep-san and Ebichang on this final flight.the Queen of Sky, Boeing 747-400, Jumbo jetliner
The beautiful ships of Cathay Pacific have retired form the commercial routes. The Boeing 747-400 was a memorable air craft of the sky. The double decker style of front and smart nose were art of modern industrial design. Four engines gave us the sense of the safety of air travel.
All airplane will be retired with some reasons as age of aircraft, financial factor of operating company or mismatched market. The 747-400, known as the Jumbo jetliner were very famous aircraft in the world. In Japan, we can see them as the airplane belonging to foreign airlines, Thai airways, China airlines and Lufthansa (B747-8i).
Boeing 747-400 and Cathay Pacific
The former flagship of Cathay Pacific, Boeing 747-400, was the last aircraft of Britishness in Hong Kong. The company of Cathay Pacific was developed with series of Boeing 747 known Jumbo jet liner, as -200B and -400. Four Rolls Royce engines sound were passing over the British owned Kowloon side of Hong Kong on approaching to Kaitak airport. The sound was one of the symbols of the old Hong Kong. The high pitch sound and fat shape of Rolls Royce engines reminded us the Cathay Pacific had been a British commercial airline company.
ticket of First class by British Airways Executive club Avios
First class cabin of final flight of CX Boeing 747-400
I had a seat 4D of the first class cabin. The ground hostess has assigned us 4D and 4A, one of the best seats of the tow person company. From the seat, I had the lovely view of the nose interior which was special view of double decker of Boeing 747-400. The seat was luxury full-flat seat as the long haul route airliner. Those have also the dinning facility with large table and a pair of seats for comany passengers.
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| the over view of First class from 4D seat |
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| The front view of 4D seat |
On this final flight, the meal courses were as the normal commercial flight between Tokyo Haneda to Hong Kong. Chinese cuisine, Japanese full course or Western courses were available as usual. We had Chinese courses with the sound of Rolls Royce engines and special atmosphere of the first class cabin.
The tour of crew rest
On this air craft, the cabin crew show us the crew rest, restricted space for cabin crews. Small flat bed were lain above the passenger cabin as the residence of the hospital for medical staff.
The memorable flight of Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 final flight
The atmosphere of first class cabin was very relaxed and comfortable to remember and remind our memories on the Boeing 747 aircrafts. The cabin was restricted for the first class passenger and press member. The inflight service manager has controled the first class cabin for the first class passengers.
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| Landed at Hong Kong, wet cloud weather |
On the bottom, Thank you very much, the cabin crews of final flight, the pilots and the technical staff of Cathay Pacific, and Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400. Good bye.
31 October 2015
Cathay Pacific business class lounge, Bangkok, Thailand
Cathay Pacific airways is renovating their lounge all over the world. The first one was the Tokyo Haneda lounge. The second was Manila. I had already reported the lounge of Haneda from where the passenger can look the Mt. Fuji.
The renovation is produced by the studio Ilse, the London based designer team. The concept of the New Cathay Pacific lounge is as staying in the living room of the passengers' own home. The new campaign "Life Well Travelled" has started on the same quarter.
The design is simple but warm. Using wood or limestone showed the modern atmosphere and nice contrast against the metal fabric of the airliner.
As the other CX lounge, they will serve the Wan tan mien noodle. Who would like to take this, when flying back to Hong kong where they will serve the lovely noodle at the noodle shop in the airport or city centre.
In this lounge, the passengers will enjoy the Thai noodle, Pat thai.
The noodle bar corner is the signature area of the Cathay Pacific lounge.
At the Noodle Bar counter, the contrast of red brown wood and green tiles were very lovely.
The standing bar corner,
The Bar counter is similar as the Manila and Tokyo. The Thai staff will serve you with their hospitality.
The public space
1 October 2015
The Pier First class lounge, Cathay Pacific lounge, Hong Kong airport, Hong Kong
The new lounge, new concept, new menu at Hong Kong airport
The Pier lounge of Cathay Pacific was renovated on this early summer. The atmosphere or furniture was very comfortable like as our living room with modern Asian concept. The orange righting was very different from the white shinny public area in the Hong Kong airport modern buildings.
The interior has shown natural and soft
quality. The brown wood panels are nicely matched with the fabric of sofa or
other furniture. The orange yellow light showed lovely relaxed atmosphere. From
the large window, you will find the nose of Boeing 777-300ER which is the
flagship of Cathay Pacific.
The Bar corner has U-shape counter and
lower table sets. In the counter, the Hong Kong lady will serve some cocktail or
champagne as well as Cathay delight.
The Bar counter view
The Bar
Entrance of the Bar area
Moving your eyes to the right side, you will find the sets of table and sofa in front of the whole height windows. In the evening, the warm lamp will shine our table or your hand or drinks. There were also self-serviced food corner displayed with the several fruit or light meals.
Food courner
Lounge space
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