In light of the ongoing pandemic, subsequent travel restrictions and severe drop in demand, Cathay Pacific and its subsidiary airline Cathay Dragon plan to operate a bare skeleton passenger flight schedule in May and June.
In May, Cathay Pacific will operate two flights per week to London, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Sydney and Delhi; and three flights per week to Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore. Cathay Dragon will operate three flights per week to Beijing and Shanghai, and Kuala Lumpur.
Cathay Pacific said the two airlines will continue this skeleton passenger flight schedule for the first three weeks of June, while they intend to operate additional passenger flights from June 21 to June 30, which will increase the operating capacity in June to approximately 5 percent across the passenger network.
According to the latest statistics, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of 311,128 passengers in March, a decrease of 90 percent compared to the same period last year. As for the first quarter this year, the two airlines carried 52 percent fewer passengers than they did in the same periods last year.
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