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Last christmas I finally fully enjoyed the pleasure of using e-tickets and online booking at Cathay Pacific. I’ve been using e-tickets before, but back then, I was not able to use the online checkin option yet. It was not available for my country (holland).

Anyway, last christmas was the first time I was able to use e-ticket online checkin and it’s great. Granted, I’ll lose the chance to be upgraded to a business class seat, but I’ve flown a dozens of times, but only got upgraded once…

It has many pro’s though. When using online checkin (24 hours before departure), I can chose my own seats in advance (the bulkhead seat are usually unavailable already, but they’re not that comfortable anyway) and I can also use the express bagage dropqueue at the airport.

In practice it means I can prevent having to go to the airport 3 hours in advance hoping to get the seats I wanted and also not having to queue up for over an hour to get myself checked in. I only had to drop my bagage. The queue for the online checkedins didn’t took longer than 5 minutes (only 3 people in front of me).

Everytime I go to Hong Kong for holiday I tend to fly with Cathay because it’s one of the two long-haul non-stop companies in Holland. But most importantly, because I will arrive early in the morning in Hong Kong and when I go back, it’ll be past midnight.

This way, I’ll be able to ‘add’ 2 extra days to my holiday for free. Also, this is the best way to fight jet-lag. You attempt to sleep for a bit in the plane, and when you arrive it’s broad daylight. The same happens when you go back. Only thing is…. sleeping on aircraft is still a pain. Literally.