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i was wondering if any of you know how long it takes to get to china from heathrow?
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Don't quote me on that though
It's 15 non-stop from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Hong Kong. Or it's timetabled for that, get a good tailwind up over Tibet and it can be donw to about 11.
Get a good book. You'll need it.
It took me about nine hours to get to Beijing from Heathrow, and about 11 to get back, if I remember rightly. I don't know why there was two hours difference, I'm no expert on plane travel. It was definitely not fifteen hours, or even close, though. So there, etc.
So there:p
Yes, but that is Hong Kong and, I assume, Charles de Gaulle, not Beijing and Heathrow. Therefore, my experience is clearly far superior, in terms of relevance to the question, to yours. So there.
THough Beijing is closer than Hong Kong. THough I wouldn't have thought by three hours :yeees:
Maybe Cathay Pacific can't be arsed rushing
as far as i recall from london it's never taken me much more than 12 hours to get there and i must have been about 6 or 7 times by now.
it's annoying how they moved the airport now though
Though I miss the approach to the old one.
we did heathrow to beijing in 10 hours out and 9 hours return, flying via frankfurt.
perhaps the difference between heathrow- beijing and paris- hong kong is the airspace restrictions? planes dont often fly direct lines, they curve.
I've done Schiphol-Hong Kong in 10 hours, straight over the Middle East. But when we came back from Hong Kong to Schiphol, and the out and back from PDG, they flew out over Russia and the Ukraine.
IT still annoys the hell out of me that Cathay Pacifi don't fly direct Manchester- Hong Kong, but I don't suppose there's the demand. At least they do the trip, which is more than can be said for Shittish Airways.
Flying into the wind one way, and out of it the other? Makes a big difference to headway.