The airline is part of the fabric of Hong Kong, having stood by its customers and staff during the most trying of times. It’s easy to knock Cathay Pacific, complain about the quality of food, inability to redeem a flight to match your peak period holiday plans or condemn the airline for cancelling a flight every now and then.

The proof, they say, is in the pudding, or in this case, the product. Cathay delivers on safety, on ensuring its fleet has the latest technology both in the cockpit and delivered to passengers through its in-flight entertainment and Wi-fi service.

Mark Peaker, The Peak

To attract likes of Taylor Swift, improve concert experience

I attended the Farruquito flamenco dance show, as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival on March 9. A perfectly fine act, but it was one that was (as is usual) conducted in dark surroundings. Unfortunately, it was somewhat ruined not only by spectators arriving late (or, conversely, leaving early), in each case escorted throughout the performance with flashlights, but also by staff overzealously enforcing the ban on photography, patrolling the aisles throughout the performance and jumping on anyone at the mere sight of a smartphone screen. This is a clear case of the cure being worse than the disease.