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Cathay Pacific targeting 33% of pre-pandemic capacity by December
September 19th 2022
Cathay Pacific chief customer and commercial officer, Ronald Lam, has forecast the airline will be operating a third of its pre-COVID passenger capacity by year end. Read More » He added the airline is being measured in increasing capacity despite the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s recent easing of air crew quarantine rules. “We will continue to add back more flights as quickly as is feasible to strengthen the network connectivity of the Hong Kong aviation hub. This will take time as we build operational readiness and undertake a substantial amount of training and aircraft reactivation,” Lam said. “Combined with other operational complexities, this means capacity can only be increased gradually over several months. As such, we are projecting, by the end of the year, to be able to operate around one third of our pre-pandemic passenger flight capacity – or about double the passenger flight capacity we operated in August.” The oneworld alliance member flew 253,907 passengers last month, up 15.5% on the 219,746 passengers it carried in July and 87.6% higher than the 135,353 passengers the airline transported in August a year ago.
