Hong Kong’s zero-Covid strategy is having a devastating effect on the city’s flagship carrier, a major shareholder has warned. Photo: Nora Tam
Hong Kong’s zero-Covid strategy is having a devastating effect on the city’s flagship carrier, a major shareholder has warned. Photo: Nora Tam

exclusive | Hong Kong’s zero-Covid strategy ‘killing’ Cathay Pacific, CEO of major shareholder warns

  • Qatar Airways boss Akbar Al Baker tells Post he believed significant percentage of Cathay flights would have been back in the air by this stage of the pandemic
  • ‘You can’t just shut the aviation industry [down] because somebody got infected coming in [on] someone’s aeroplane,’ he says in exclusive interview

Hong Kong’s zero-Covid strategy is having a devastating effect on the city’s flagship carrier, a major shareholder has warned. Photo: Nora Tam
Hong Kong’s zero-Covid strategy is having a devastating effect on the city’s flagship carrier, a major shareholder has warned. Photo: Nora Tam