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View Poll Results: You like Cathy Pacific or Dragonair more???
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Cathy Pacific
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Dragonair
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Both of them
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09-07-2003, 06:30 AM
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Senior Collector
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Hong Kong
Age: 31
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Cathay Pacific or Dragonair?
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair are the two main passenger airlines in Hong Kong.
In terms of service quality, you like Cathay Pacific or Dragonair more??? 
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Last edited by Father Manicotti; 09-08-2003 at 10:52 AM.
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09-07-2003, 08:59 AM
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AirBoeingBus
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Singapore
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I thought DragonAir is under Cathay Pacific ?
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09-07-2003, 01:13 PM
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Old School Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: England
Age: 35
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I've flown Dragonair before, not bad as I recall, the food was OK, but then again I spent most of the flight (Beijing - HK, A330-300) sleeping. Oh and Evanescance are boring, I know DAC isn't exactly the height of cool, but do you have to make it worse for us?  
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Last edited by Nick; 09-07-2003 at 01:14 PM.
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09-07-2003, 01:49 PM
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Old School Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: England
Age: 35
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well...yes...erm...quite.
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I should have something witty or a quote written here... But I can't think of either.
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09-07-2003, 02:04 PM
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Mondo Zouk & Soca
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: San Mateo, California (SFO)
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nick
....I know DAC isn't exactly the height of cool, but do you have to make it worse for us?
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DAC isn't the epitome of cool, Nick, but 'gothic' is pretty passé too, nowdays! 
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09-07-2003, 02:12 PM
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Old School Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: England
Age: 35
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Amen to that and thank.....GOD?
Evanescance are nu-metal anyway aren't they? The only goth thing about them is the eye makeup.
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I should have something witty or a quote written here... But I can't think of either.
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09-07-2003, 02:19 PM
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Old School Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: England
Age: 35
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wow, post a minute here...rest assured I will kill my "abducted soul" as soon as I find the abductees and reclaim ownership of said soul...all in due course.
this is WAAAY off topic, so back to it. Dragonair I believe is part owned by Swire (who own Cathay) and share booking agents and possibly maintainance. Cathay are good + part of Oneworld, so i'm sure you can't go far wrong with either.
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I should have something witty or a quote written here... But I can't think of either.
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09-07-2003, 08:43 PM
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Master Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Dragonair is nolonger part in the Swire Group and their relationship with Cathay deteriorated with the Cathay applications to re-open China routes...
China National Aviation Company Ltd. 43.29%
CITIC Pacific Ltd. 29.35%
Swire Pacific Ltd. 7.71%
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. 17.79%
Others 1.86%
Personally in terms of IFE, CX is better but in terms of Cabin crew quality KA is far ahead... you guys think CX is good because those crews in CX always treat White/Western people better than Chinese... Usually when a Chinese requests for something, they need to ask for many times and the crew will black face to handle it...
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09-07-2003, 09:07 PM
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Jetliner Collector
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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I have flown both of them and like both.
The collections of CX and KA are almost done if we have CX B773 in 1/400. Waiting ......
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09-07-2003, 09:10 PM
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Jetliner Collector
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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I am the only one keeping promoting Dragonair at DAC, right?
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09-07-2003, 09:24 PM
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Collector
Join Date: Sep 2003
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The only thing good about Dragonair is their cool logo...
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09-07-2003, 11:02 PM
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Master Collector
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Quote:
Originally posted by freewing
I have flown both of them and like both.
The collections of CX and KA are almost done if we have CX B773 in 1/400. Waiting ......
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Hahaha~ No you are not alone. I prefer KA over CX... if I must fly to elsewhere that not covered by KA... I will choose other carrier than CX because CX fare is more than others in Hong Kong... and also their service to us isn't as what they advertised...
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09-08-2003, 10:24 AM
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Master Collector
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 629
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Who's got the best service?
CATHAY PACIFIC
Last edited by Richard Allen; 09-08-2003 at 10:25 AM.
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09-08-2003, 01:54 PM
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Old Collector
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Quote:
Originally posted by Louis
Personally in terms of IFE, CX is better but in terms of Cabin crew quality KA is far ahead... you guys think CX is good because those crews in CX always treat White/Western people better than Chinese... Usually when a Chinese requests for something, they need to ask for many times and the crew will black face to handle it...
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I am not sure why so many people in Hong Kong are so dissatisfied with CX "discriminating" Chinese...or should I say "Hongkonese"? I am not sure if that is just an Urban Myth, just like some Taiwanese praise EVA air over China Airlines all the time while I find both terrible....compared to Cathay
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09-08-2003, 01:59 PM
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Old Collector
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Quote:
Originally posted by freewing
I have flown both of them and like both.
The collections of CX and KA are almost done if we have CX B773 in 1/400. Waiting ......
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No, we are still missing quite a few models in 1/400:
1) A330-300
2) A340-300
3) A340-600
4) B777-200
and finally
5)B777-300
We are totally missing Dragonair in 1/400!!!!
Answering your other question: no, you are not alone praising Dragonair. I think their uniform is formal yet sexy at the same time...and all their cabin crew can speak proper mandarin, unlike CX cabin crew, who sometimes bring the wrong stuff to mandarin-speaking passengers!
anyways....
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09-09-2003, 11:12 AM
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Collector
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
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I dont like flying CX due to their poor service and lack of leg rooms between seats.
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09-09-2003, 11:16 AM
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Insane Collector
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I have to say that in my experience CX are hugely over rated,
Justin
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09-09-2003, 11:58 AM
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Complete Wacko!
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Parker, CO
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Sounds like Greenlandair promotion!
Quote:
Originally posted by freewing
I am the only one keeping promoting Dragonair at DAC, right?
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See that at least some have been done.
Last edited by Chansen; 09-09-2003 at 03:09 PM.
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09-09-2003, 07:22 PM
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www.wizzair.com
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: State College, PA
Age: 21
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I say CX but they cant really be compared
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06-22-2004, 01:29 PM
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Insane Collector
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Singapore
Posts: 1,812
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So far, Cathay Pacific in-flt services have not let me down....Crew are friendly and nice....And IFE programs are always up to date!
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06-22-2004, 02:19 PM
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I haven´t yet flown on either airline, but the CX colors are cool, and their phone hotline is EXTREMELY FRIENDLY.
Not at all like Virgin Atlantic, to speak out loud!
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06-23-2004, 12:03 AM
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Insane Collector
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: HK/PRC
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both services r sucks. Their flight attendants who regard themselves r beautiful always wear very anyry faces to serve passengers in economic class esp those from HK. I am totally agreed with Louis that HK ppl have to ask serve times to get what they want.
I had took a flight from Osaka to HK on a JAL DC 10, those Japanese flight attendants services r good even in economic class. Even, when u travel in Japan, you can feel n enjoy the hospitality of Japanese.
If i have choice, I would choose JAL, SQ & Thai over CX. I hope the open up sky policy of HK could bring us more choice in future.
CX n Dragonair lets Learn something. 
I wonder why CX's aircrafts do not has HK flag, but a swire logo. How dare they say "Hong Kong is their Home"
Last edited by NWO; 06-23-2004 at 12:15 AM.
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06-23-2004, 01:55 AM
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Senior Collector
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: HKSAR
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Quote:
Originally posted by NWO
both services r sucks. Their flight attendants who regard themselves r beautiful always wear very anyry faces to serve passengers in economic class esp those from HK. I am totally agreed with Louis that HK ppl have to ask serve times to get what they want.
I had took a flight from Osaka to HK on a JAL DC 10, those Japanese flight attendants services r good even in economic class. Even, when u travel in Japan, you can feel n enjoy the hospitality of Japanese.
If i have choice, I would choose JAL, SQ & Thai over CX. I hope the open up sky policy of HK could bring us more choice in future.
CX n Dragonair lets Learn something.
I wonder why CX's aircrafts do not has HK flag, but a swire logo. How dare they say "Hong Kong is their Home"
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Absolutely correct. The service of SQ, JAL & ANA is far better than CX. I fly a lot to Taipei and I prefer Eva to CX.
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06-23-2004, 09:51 AM
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Master Collector
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hong Kong
Age: 39
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Both NWO & Tokyo2040 is absolutely correct. I like the aircraft of CX but don't like their company!
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06-26-2004, 10:52 AM
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Place-less Collector
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Hong Kong
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I don't think CX's service is that bad as told by some board-mates here...
I have traveled on 2 round-trips so far by CX. One was to Taipei and the other was to Singapore.
The service provided was nice. Food was nice, crew was polite and friendly and kept smiling all along (it's company policy, no matter if it's really straight from their hearts). IFE is excellent as I can say. After these 2 times of flight, even though some short ones, IFE is so important to me as I traveled on TG which doesn't have IFE system having bored me to death.
I don't think crew are discriminating local HK pax as long as pax are remained """polite""". Crew members are busy running all long in the cabin and that takes some time to serve all requests. I think they attend pax within reasonable of time.
As I heard from other groups, CX economy class service is some first class service in airlines in the West. I don't know if it's really that exaggerated. But I can tell CX service is not bad at least.
I cannot compare KA's service as I didn't take it b4. But it's definitely a choice when choosing among Chinese Mainland carriers.
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11-15-2005, 06:04 AM
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DRAGONAIR OF COURSE!!!!
Don't mess with the Dragon!!!!
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11-16-2005, 01:17 PM
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I am come from Texas.
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This is one of the most pointless polls ever. And that's saying alot with the quality of the polls we see around here.
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11-16-2005, 02:12 PM
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What strikes me most is that this is a 2-year-old post.
Like Matt said, who cares? I would never care to bother either airline if I wanted to go to Asia. And I guess that goes for most of us.
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11-16-2005, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Hapag-Lloyd
What strikes me most is that this is a 2-year-old post.
Like Matt said, who cares? I would never care to bother either airline if I wanted to go to Asia. And I guess that goes for most of us.
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Well.... you might, since Dragonair only flies freighters to Europe...
Anyway, Dragonair rules! Dragonair Cargo even more! 
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11-16-2005, 09:30 PM
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Master Collector
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Gotta say Cathay Pacific, nothing against Dragon Air but I would collect them too.
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11-16-2005, 10:21 PM
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Guess The Poll Says It All. Dragonair Is One Butt Ugly Livery.
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11-18-2005, 09:03 AM
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Éminence Grise
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Since I have flown neither airline,
I guess my decision would go down to the willingness of the female flight attendants!
You can read into that what you want!
TK
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11-18-2005, 10:01 AM
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Surprise, surprise. As I recall CX was voted the best airliner in Asia for a couple of years straight by Skytrax? Now some of us got nasty treatment when flying on economy. Kinda like MH. Do you believe you actually get less food flying domestic on a B737 compare to a B777 or A330? 
Last edited by waiping; 11-18-2005 at 10:02 AM.
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