Masks?
 

It looks like Cathay has dropped their mask requirement. Can anyone confirm firsthand? I'm ready to book a BC ticket but need to make sure it's actually changed, first.

Thanks a ton!

It has been dropped indeed. Cathay has already announced this change on its website.

Confirm you can be mask free out of Hong Kong with Cathay based on my experience last weekend (and their tweets) - in the lounge, on boarding, on the plane: Of course there will be a fairly reasonable number of people voluntarily wearing masks anyway, but that is the HK way.

HK is now mask free, so I suppose there is no mandatory mask requirement on CX.

On 04 Mar, HKG-TPE, I was required to wear a mask, due to destination authorities requiring such.

On London to Hong Kong and onto Jakarta this week, masks weren't mentioned and most passengers did not wear them, although all cabin crew did.

Last weekend, Madrid HK mask not enforced and most didn't wear. HK Tokyo mask not enforced and 60-70% wore it (being a HK ppl heavy flight). Most cabin crew wore one.

Certain destinations (eg. Seoul) still require. But very lax on being enforced.

This Is The Way.

Been on F to and from LHR in early Jan and never got asked to wear a mask.

Masks have become a very personal thing.
Interestingly although there is no longer any requirement to ware a mask in HK at least 80% of the population still do and I suspect that many will continue to do so as in Japan where masks have been warn as a norm in the flu season and when one has a cold - this so of course so as not to infect others. This is not a recent happening as the Japanese have been waring masks since at least the mis forties.

I have noticed most FAs opt to mask up, but passengers have no such requirement. I like the system now, where the mask preference is left entirely up to the individual. Even now in Singapore, it's the same, though I've noticed the drivers on all of my taxi rides have remained masked, but there's certainly no requirement for the passenger.

PS - Even when masks were mandated, business and F, on CX anyway, pax were allowed to remove them when reclining one's seat.

Thank you all for the help. Booked LAX-SYD for NYE in bc. This is my first Cathay flight - I'm excited!

FYI this requirement was dropped on the 20th of March.