Flight: Cathay Pacific CX 881 from Los Angeles to Hong Kong
Duration: 15 hours 55 minutes
Aircraft: B773(Boeing 777-300ER)
Class: Business
Seat: 11A (single bulkhead seat with direct aisle access)
Seat Specification: True Flat Bed, Seat pitch: 81.0 “. Seat width: 21 ”
I declined pre-departure beverage of champagne/juice as I had some drinks at the lounge in LAX just an hour prior.
Dinner service started soon after take-off. I felt I had better menu choices on my previous trans-pacific flights and was a little disappointed. I ended up choosing the wok fried pork with black pepper and it turned out to be surprisingly ok.
For dessert I chose Tiramisu as well as chocolate ice-cream.
After dinner I watched a couple of movies and then extended the seat in bed mode and went to sleep. I slept for about 7 hours and then dozed off for a couple more.
Breakfast service started about 3 hours before landing.
Bottomline:
Seat: *****
Service: ***
Food: **
The seat was very comfortable and being my favorite type of seat (reverse herringbone with each seat having direct aisle access) I slept really well. I also liked that I had selected the forward business-class cabin with 2 rows which had minimal foot traffic.
The service was ok, nothing remarkable.
My biggest disappointment was with menu choices. I was not happy with Cathay wasting an entree choice with burger(!!) and my wok fried pork was ok. I remember having better meals in Cathay Pacific in same LAX – HKG segment in prior years.