MooMoo290373

We have been looking at various airlines over the last few months, and Cathay Pacfic are the cheapest by £1000 has anyone flown with them if so how did you find them.

Also can you recommend any airlines that were good or ones to avoid.

Many thanks

Ginny & Scott

Stoof

dunno about cathay pacific as haven't flown with them - singapore are best we've been with, tho air nz, brit airways and quantas all ok... friends swear by emirates?

spotted one-way LHR-AKL with thai air a few weeks ago for £490 all inc. via bangkok, but dunno what they're like? we're going in june and have gone with singapore - 1700 for three of us, and 120kg of luggage cos of our PR. slightly more than the other airlines we found, but we know what we're getting and have sorted out 15hours in changi so we can book in the transit hotel for some kip!

here to stay

Our friends family have just gone back to the UK.They flew with Royal Brunei (sp?).I would say a big no no and they said never again.Everyone had to pray in Manchester before they took off,also they don't give out alcohol !! Bit of a bummer when you think how much the flight cost and not even a wine with your meal. We have been with Singapore and Malaysian and New Zealand Airlines, all very good.My mum arrived here in March on the new Emerites airbus and said she ain't gonna fly with any one else now !!!

gozzy

We came with nzair through LAX, extra luggage, and if you put ''mov****'' in the promo code you will get a discount on the flight or we did in january. Just checked on the website and it has finished but someone may know of a code to use . We found out from a post on britishexpats so it may pay you to ask about. We saved 600 pounds.
Good luck sorry I cannot help anymore
Gozzy

Persephone

Hi
I came via LAX with AirNZ. Very good entertainment food and wine and was impressed with them. Though the stopover at LAX is uninspiring to say the least Queueing to go through pointless immigration procedures and then sitting in a bare room for 2 hours You do get 46kg luggage allowance per person though and I was quite liberal with their carry on allowances and was allowed through
Used Thai last year to travel to and from NZ with a holiday in SE Asia in between. Quality was variable. Great on the legs from AKL to Bangkok, would recommend Thai from this part of the journey. Crap LHR to Bangkok and back, tatty planes and decor, rude staff, only one screen at the front of the plane and only one film, nasty food and wine.
Never flown with Cathay pacific

Mgee

Apparently that promo ended at the end of February.

eddie_nz

Cathey are great LA is a pit don't fly though there...

Matewx

LA might be a pit n sitting in this bare room might be pain but am willing to do it this once as 46kg Vs 20kg does it for me... Plus you spend most your time in plan (24 out of 26hrs) so as long as the food, wine, seats n entertainment are good am flying through LAX no questions!

Browner_

A bit worrying!

lardyl

yup, and the whole queing thing is not so bad if you have young kids as they get you to the front............

lardyl

haha - maybe Ryanair should introduce this and allow people to pay not to say 25 Hail Marys before take off and landing.......

scrubbedexpat094

It's not too bad & is only a small time out of your life. We brought a 5th suitcase & AirNZ charged £150 for that. We had been in touch with them in advance & so knew the charge for an extra 23kg. Well worth it

Persephone

It isn't really that bad and is definitely worth it for the extra weight
I travelled through America three times in the space of a month and just got a bit sick of the queueing and the questioning. Though maybe if I didn't have a visa in my passport from one of the Axis of Evil countries I would have got through a whole lot quicker...