Originally Posted by oldchinahand

TY I tend to ignore your personalised and repetitive anti Cathay rhetoric for what is.
However as you seeming have read my posts on the subject you should have noticed that I have mentioned that the airline is tight for pilots -seeming too tight to withstand this winter flu epidemic.
Until just prior to Christmas the airline was able to fully run its published schedule i..e. sufficient pilots - those pilots have not evaperated they are as per the airlines statement 'sick' and the airline as has been freely admitted does not yet have enough cover.
Not a good situation but cancelling 6 flight pairs out of around 130 daily is hardly catastrophic or unusual - BA routinely cancels over 3% of its daily flights and it is considered normal and rarely mentioned .