Cathay Pacific Airlines

We had a slight scare at Hong Kong International Airport Sunday night as we were attempting to check-in.  The person behind the counter believed that we had missed our flight, that we were actually scheduled to take off at 12:30 AM on June 27, Sunday morning, and not at 12:30 AM, June 28, Monday morning.  Nightmarish thoughts began to dance in my mind.  But I told her that our itinerary specifically stated that we were to take off on June 28.  I had confirmed on the Cathay Pacific Airlines website itself that our departure flight from HKG was on the 28th, not the 27th.

After a few anxious moments, she confirmed that we were indeed scheduled to depart on the 28th.  When I asked her what caused the confusion, she cryptically said something to the effect that there is no penalty.  IMHO, this was a bizarre answer as we had not changed our itinerary to begin with so what was this nonsense about "no penalty".  However, since we had our boarding passes in hand and our luggage had already been checked through, I decided this was not the time to raise a ruckus.  What is the old say?  "Win the battle but lose the war".

I should note that Cathay Pacific Airline's Boeing 747s have power outlets at each seat in Economy Class.  Thus you can use your laptops and other electronic devices even if your battery power is being used up quickly.  The power outlets will accept either American or UK style plugs.  Pat was able to watch his own movies and read his E-Books throughout the flight on his I Pad and not worry about draining his battery since there was a power outlet handy.
Moreover, the video selections such as movies, TV shows, music, etc. are all "on demand".  As a result, you can start a movie whenever you wish to, pause a movie, fast forward or reverse, etc.  The on demand feature is far superior to what we experienced on other planes that start movies at a specific time.  If you miss the first 10 minutes or so of a movie, too bad.  Moreover, you cannot pause the movie so if you miss a part of the movie due to a bathroom break, again too bad.  Consequently, we really enjoyed the movie options on Cathay Pacific.

Among the movies I viewed were Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, Sherlock Holmes, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.  As Pat said, Avatar was indeed Dancing with Smurfs.  :-)