Covid-19 coronavirus - effect on Cathay Pacific
Dec 26, 2021, 5:58 pm
#1441
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Swire owns 45% of CX only https://www.swirepacific.com/en/abou...AirwaysLimited . Remember CA has another 29.99% due to cross holding.
Buying Swire out will give Govt control over CX, esp if it is assumed CA will vote the way HKSARG does.
HKSARG does not have 100% ownership of Disney either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Disneyland
Dec 27, 2021, 5:07 am
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Dec 27, 2021, 5:42 am
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Dec 27, 2021, 7:13 am
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Last edited by percysmith; Dec 27, 2021 at 7:52 am
Dec 27, 2021, 4:10 pm
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And fumigate planes during turnarounds HKG so it doesn't work for outport airlines as well New procedures for PVG? ?
anyway, it seem like more CX flights might be cancelled. The gov seem will enhance/enforce more quarantine measures. Two more CX cabin crews have tested positive.
and these are from CX843/845. Which is actually cargo flight. I think the outgoing flights have paxes.
Dec 27, 2021, 11:09 pm
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Cargo crews to enter quarantine hotels for 3 days after flights https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...gtype=homepage
Dec 29, 2021, 8:56 am
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I don't think transit is prohibited in Hong Kong but transit passengers must have the same 48 hours PCR test certified by ICAO like arriving passengers now.
Transit passengers may be offloaded for lots of reasons but I will guess that they are not aware of the stringent PCR test requirement or their onward flights from HKG to other destinations are cancelled. Given the new requirements for cockpit crews to go into quarantine for three days after arriving in Hong Kong, CX is forced to cancel and/or consolidate plenty of flights. Hopefully these affected passengers will be rebooked on another airline. Flying CX is really not recommended now for transits of any kind for now.
Carfield
Transit passengers may be offloaded for lots of reasons but I will guess that they are not aware of the stringent PCR test requirement or their onward flights from HKG to other destinations are cancelled. Given the new requirements for cockpit crews to go into quarantine for three days after arriving in Hong Kong, CX is forced to cancel and/or consolidate plenty of flights. Hopefully these affected passengers will be rebooked on another airline. Flying CX is really not recommended now for transits of any kind for now.
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Dec 29, 2021, 10:13 am
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Actually just one day and all exemption are now gone, any flights not going to China has to be with close loop system. So yea, I don't know how many flights even cargo only can CX keep operating in the coming weeks and months.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...antine-related
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...antine-related
Last edited by patrickw; Dec 29, 2021 at 8:12 pm
Dec 29, 2021, 6:46 pm
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Actually just one day ans all exemption are now gone, any flights not going to China has to be with close loop system. So yea, I don't know how many flights even cargo only can CX keep operating in the coming weeks and months.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...antine-related
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...antine-related
It had few longhaul flights left operating and now this will hit all non-China regional flights.
Besides an unbelievable number of longhaul flights already cancelled, there is a large number of regional flights cancelled today.
The situation is bad for transit pax when their second leg (outbound HK) is cancelled. They are denied boarding at the point of departure.
Transit through HK is basically dead.
Last edited by brunos; Dec 29, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Dec 30, 2021, 5:49 am
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hk spent 145 bio hkd (20bio usd) for three runway system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong...ster_Plan_2030
thats another tax money gone to waste.
cx will disappear. hk govt is petty clear thry want CX belly up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong...ster_Plan_2030
thats another tax money gone to waste.
cx will disappear. hk govt is petty clear thry want CX belly up
Dec 30, 2021, 9:11 am
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The South China Morning Post is reporting that due to a change in quarantine requirements for air crew from 3 days confinement at a designated hotel to 7 days, Cathay Pacific is having to shut down all long-haul passenger and cargo flights all B747F and "cargo-only passenger" flights for seven days.
The change comes into effect after midnight on Friday 31 December 2021.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...acific-aircrew
The change comes into effect after midnight on Friday 31 December 2021.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...acific-aircrew
Last edited by Singapore_Air; Dec 30, 2021 at 9:27 am Reason: SCMP article updated with clarification from Director of Flight Ops
Dec 30, 2021, 9:17 am
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The article actually says "all long-haul cargo and cargo-only passenger flights", and the airline is quoted as saying "all 747 and cargo-only passenger flight layover operations".
I wonder whether "passenger flights" is being used to mean "flights using passenger aircraft", which may make more sense in the phrase "cargo-only passenger flights".
I wonder whether "passenger flights" is being used to mean "flights using passenger aircraft", which may make more sense in the phrase "cargo-only passenger flights".