There's the announcement: after a four-year absence, Cathay Pacific finally returns to Rome
The news was long overdue and was announced today by Cathay Pacific. The Hong Kong-based company, after [...]
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The news was long overdue and was announced today by Cathay Pacific. Hong Kong company, after more than four years of 'absconding' will return to operations at Rome's Fiumicino airport. He will starting next June 5 with a tri-weekly rotation on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Cathay returns to Rome, flight details
From Rome it will leave at 11:45 a.m. to arrive the next day morning at 5:20 a.m. in Hong Kong. From the Asian metropolis, on the other hand, it will take off 45 minutes after midnight to land in the Roman airport at 7:50 a.m.
Flights will be operated with three-class Airbus A350-900s offering 38 seats in Business Class, 28 seats in Premium Economy and 214 seats in Economy. Certainly not the Aria Suites, but still they are a modern product where all business class passengers have direct aisle access and where service is at the highest level.
In his statement, Cathay calls flights to Rome 'seasonal,' so operating during Summer 2025. A special year for the Italian capital because it will be the site of the Jubilee, which is held every 25 years and will attract visitors and tourists from all over the world.
And in fact, on the company's website, the last non-stop flight is on Saturday, October 25 (last day of Summer), while from the following week from Rome to Hong Kong will return to flying via London Heathrow with British and then Cathay. Rome had been in 1986 the first destination served in Italy by the Hong Kong carrier, as well as one of the first in Europe.
Today, however, the best-served airport is Milan Malpensa, which has five direct weekly flights to Hong Kong that will become daily starting March 30.
From Malpensa Cathay is currently flying three-class Boeing 777-300ERs. (Business, Premium Economy and Economy), departing at 11:45 a.m. and arriving at 6:25 a.m. the next morning. In the reverse direction, takeoff from Hong Kong is at 00:50 with arrival at 7:40. With the upgrading of frequency (which is now 5 times a week) to daily, the Airbus A350-900 will take the place of the Boeing 777-300ER.
The year 2025 is intended to be A pivotal year for Cathay's long-haul network development, which will add to the destinations served non-stop from Hong Kong Hyderabad in March, Dallas in April, Munich in June, and Brussels in August.
Plenty of award places available
A new opportunity then opens up for serial accumulators of points and miles to redeem award tickets to fly aboard the Hong Kong carrier, Transfer points from Membership Rewards to Asia Miles, Cathay's loyalty program, is easy and free, and booking an award ticket is super easy.
At this time the award seat calendar is fully open and there are seats available in all classes. It starts at 27 thousand Asia Miles for an economy ticket and goes up to 84k for a business class, the advantage is also to be able to stopover to other destinations in Cathay's network and to take advantage of the low fees, just over 130€ one way.
