Covid-19 creates vexing planning environment: Cathay chairman

Cathay Pacific Group chairman Patrick Healy has highlighted the difficulties the coronavirus pandemic poses for planning airline operations. The highly-contagious Delta variant of the virus is particularly challenging, affecting a number of key Cathay markets, including Mainland China, says Healy. “It is extremely difficult to plan and operate with the constantly changing environment that we’re in,” he says. “The one thing that is very clear, irrespective of the types of variants that we see with the virus…is the critical importance of vaccination rates.” Healy, speaking during an earnings call, says that Cathay has tried to set an example, with 99% of pilots and 91% of air crew vaccinated. <br/>