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February 10, 2007Cathay PacificFlight experienceCathay Pacific Airlines have a flight from New York to Vancouver, which I was able to use for a recent trip to Vancouver in September 2006 when I needed to attend the IEEE Enterprise Networking Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. I decided that, if feasible, I would try to stop off in either on the way over or back to/from Vancouver to visit relatives in New York. I did my usual initial search on ebookers.com to find the connecting travel options from Ireland and a number of other EU states to Vancouver, and I discovered on one of the returned results that there is a direct New York JFK to Vancouver flight with Cathay Pacific Airlines. It seems that Vancouver is the stopover airport for the New York - JFK to Honk Kong Cathay Pacific flight. Once I had this clue, I went on the Cathay Pacific web site directly and checked their prices for the dates that I wanted on the JFK – VAN flights. Amazingly, for flights on 10th and 11th September, a couple of days before the conference, they had prices of 400 dollars for these dates of travel, which at the time was around 350 euros (I reckoned it was because no one in their right mind would want to fly on 9/11). I immediately contacted Eimear O’D in TSSG and had her book the return JFK – VAN flights with Cathay Pacific airlines on the web site.
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