Cathay Pacific Suspends Cargo Flights On account of Virus Controls

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for each and every week on account of stricter quarantine must haves for air crews, probably together with to drive on world supply chains.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for each and every week on account of stricter quarantine must haves for air crews, probably together with to drive on world supply chains.

Long-haul flights to Europe, across the Pacific and to Riyadh and Dubai are suspended through Jan. 6, the airline discussed Thursday. It promised to take a look at to be in agreement customers “mitigate the disruption.”

The airline’s team of workers is stretched thin after the quarantine for Cathay Pacific flight crews who return from in a foreign country was once extended to a minimum of one week in a resort room from 3 days.

Thursday’s announcement gave no details, alternatively The South China Morning Post newspaper discussed the longer quarantine would go away Cathay without enough pilots for all its flights.

The airline earlier asked group of workers to volunteer for a “closed-loop software” underneath which they could art work for three-week stints with brief stopovers in Hong Kong, alternatively too few agreed, in line with knowledge tales.

Cathay discussed earlier it will cut back its agenda of passenger flights throughout the first 3 months of 2022 on account of group of workers shortages.

On Friday, the airline discussed 5 air group of workers folks tested sure for the coronavirus’s omicron variant after getting back from in a foreign country. It blamed “a vital breach of protocols” by means of those group of workers and discussed it will lead to unspecified willpower.