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Oct 4, 2022 | 1:57 pm

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Mwenenzi

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Originally Posted by Microtat

Any insights to how CX intends to resume their services? Seems like their focus is on key routes to the UK and USA (excl the Mainland), while some significant markets in the past are now still in crumbles, eg SIN which does not even see daily flights.. Any info to share, if not guesses?

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Originally Posted by benmitchell

I just cant see them getting anywhere close to regular service. They have so many planes grounded with parts missing and a lack of staff means they continue to bleed cash. The cash was forecast to dry up in April. Greater Bay Airlines is set and ready to go when CX folds and thats what is going to happen.

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Rounding a corner on his morning commute, Ben Connell spies a Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 parked in the distance.

Moving closer, another pops into view… and then another, with dozens of jets sitting in orderly rows. While not an uncommon sight at the airline’s Hong Kong Airport hub, it is unusual here in Alice Springs, in the middle of Australia’s parched ‘top end’. Nestled amid seemingly-endless red dirt and spinifex alongside the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage (APAS), the regional airport has no international flights - until 2020 at least, it rarely welcomed anything larger than a Boeing 737.

But then, things have changed dramatically for the outback gateway since the pandemic began, with row upon row of Boeing 777, Airbus A330 and A320 aircraft – their once-bright fuselages covered in dust – now lined up in hibernation alongside its single long runway.
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