Originally Posted by
flatlander
Slightly off the EK topic, it does not surprise me that the EK's passenger yields are low but that Cathay Pacific's passenger yields are so low.
They're a bit stuck, they have the ME3 attacking their Europe market share and the revamped Americans attacking their NA market share, but the big one is the mainland Chinese airlines attacking them everywhere. SQ are sufficiently far away to avoid being a natural competitor for that last one.
They've also made some terrible internal decisions in an effort to increase the numbers of local Chinese staff within the company.