Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific group has cancelled more than half of its flights for next two months amid coronavirus outbreak
- Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon together will cut 783 flights per week in February and 835 per week in March
- But the group is expanding its services to New York and Vancouver
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon have cancelled more than half their flights in February and March amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to an analysis by the Post.
The airlines together will cut 783 flights per week in February and 835 per week in March, reducing their services by 52 and 57 per cent respectively.
The Post studied all 107 routes to 101 airports served by Cathay Pacific, which mostly concentrates on long-haul flights and major cities in Asia, while its regional arm Cathay Dragon takes care of all other regional Asia flights, including the bulk of mainland China services.
Some 90 per cent of the group’s reduction falls on mainland China services. The airlines will only fly to Beijing, Shanghai – Pudong and Hongqiao airports – Xiamen, and Chengdu on the mainland, but on a vastly scaled back service. Only 39 of its 368 services to these areas will run during the next two months.
Flights to Shanghai’s Pudong airport have been reduced from 91 a week to just seven.
