No Cathay Pacific flights will be cancelled during CNY period

Cathay Pacific has announced that passengers booked on its flights during the Chinese New Year travel period will be unaffected by its recent spate of flight cancellations, adding that all cancellations have already been made. The airline, which operates 102 flights weekly between Singapore and Hong Kong, said there will be no flight cancellations for the period between Feb 7 and 18. Cathay Pacific’s regional general manager of South-East Asia Dominic Perret said outside of this period, an average of four flights per week between the two destinations were cancelled in January and February. These are part of a wider series of 12 weekly cancellations announced across its flight operations for the first two months of the year. Chief Operations and Service Delivery Officer Alex McGowan said in a statement on Jan 10: “Over the Christmas and New Year period, we underestimated the number of reserve pilots we would need. Given our January pilot rosters were already set in mid-December, the lack of adequate reserve levels persisted into January. “In order to stabilise the current operation, we needed to cancel further flights across the first two weeks of January.”<br/>