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Cathay Pacific to build capacity by 500,000 seats in November and December
October 18th 2022
Cathay Pacific chief customer and commercial officer, Ronald Lam, said the Hong Kong-based carrier has added about 400 flights to its schedule since the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) reduced mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals to three days. Read More » “We will continue to increase flights in coming months,” Lam said in Cathay's monthly traffic report. “In addition to the flight sectors previously scheduled for November and December, we will be adding close to 700 and 1,200 sectors, respectively, to the network. This will provide passengers with more than half a million seats to choose from.” The airline is on track to double the destinations it will serve by year-end, from 29 in January this year. The oneworld alliance member reported it flew 265,845 passengers in September, up 4.7% from the 253,907 customers it transported in August and more than double the 131,774 passengers flown in the same month in 2021. Compared with pre-COVID-19 levels, the September results were 89% below the 2.4 million Cathay passengers carried in September 2019. Passenger capacity was about 16% of pre-pandemic levels, the airline said. “Cathay Pacific’s travel business continued to show improvement in September, helped by student traffic from Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland,” Lam said.
