Cathay Pacific has canceled more than 50 flights due to insufficient manpower, and it has not returned to normal.Cathay Pacific still has at least 16 flights to Hong Kong or departure flights on Sunday (December 31).
Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily and Bloomberg reported that according to the Hong Kong International Airport website, Cathay Pacific Sunday canceled 10 flights to Hong Kong and the sixth flight from Hong Kong.The destination of the cancellation of flights includes Sydney and Melbourne, Beijing and Shanghai, Singapore, Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo and New Delhi.
Regarding the cancellation of the flight, Chris Kempis, the director of the Cathay Pacific flight operation, explained in a memorandum that on the one hand, because of the "prevalence of the prevalence", many pilots have reached reachedOr the upper limit of the 900 flight hours close to 12 months, which means that "the flexibility of the pilot that can be arranged on the preparation and rest days is much reduced."
Previously, from Friday (December 29th, December 29th (December 29th (December 29th (December 29th) During the New Year's Day (January 1), Cathay Pacific had more than 50 flights to cancel, mainly in Asian flights. The company had apologized to passengers on temporary flight changes.
Cathay Pacific issued a statement earlier that the cancellation of the multi -flight aircraft was due to the influenza season in December, and the pilot was more absent from the expected due to illness.The passenger flight of less than one percent of the total is canceled.
