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Cathay Pacific Airways fires three COVID-19 infected freighter pilots
November 19th 2021
Cathay Pacific Airways “no longer employed three freighter pilots who were infected by COVID-19 and subsequently involved in a quarantine controversy in Hong Kong. Read More » The South China Morning Post reported the airline had the pilots were no longer with the airline and that an internal investigation had found the trio were involved in an unspecified “serious breach” of crew requirements while in Germany. The infections resulted in more than 150 of the airline’s staff being quarantined and close contacts to be sent to an isolation facility. More than 120 students at a school where the wife of one of the pilots teaches - and where two sons of the couple are enrolled - also were quarantined. The pilots denied leaving their hotel rooms or participating in gatherings, the Hong Kong newspaper reported.
