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Cathay Pacific Group reports 80% of cockpit crew have booked or received vaccine jab
May 14th 2021
Cathay Pacific Group said yesterday 80% of its pilots and 40% of cabin crew either had booked or received their COVID-19 vaccination. Read More » The airline, which has launched an "arm up, let's fly again" campaign, said it was "proactively encouraging all of its employees to get vaccinated", arguing this was a crucial step towards resumption of international air travel. “We are heartened by the response of our aircrew to the Arm Up campaign as many of our people at Cathay Pacific look forward to flying again as soon as possible," Cathay CEO, Augustus Tang, said. "We will continue to support community vaccination efforts by encouraging both our people and the people of Hong Kong to get vaccinated." The airline said so far this year there had been zero positive tests among the 28,000 tests taken by locally-based pilots and cabin crew after they arrived back in Hong Kong.
