I flew Cathay Pacific twice from Hong Kong to the USA in the last two months, the experience was really bad. 1. Although the airline asked the passengers to aboard on time during both trips, but kept the airplane grounded for another two hours before they finally took off. Basically, they extended the very long international trips even longer. 2. The delay also caused huge issue for my transit in the USA. 3. On the grounded airplane, condensate water kept dropping on passengers' head. The flight attendant could not do anything but a towel for passenger to wipe head. The only explanation was that the water would stop if the flight took off.
Such poor service reflected the airline's mismanagement and its disregard for customers' well being. I would not recommend it to anyone, if there are other alternative carriers with direct flight from Hong Kong to the USA.