Hong Kong is striving to enhance its connectivity with countries under the Belt and Road Initiative by increasing flight frequencies to strategic destinations such as Xinjiang, Riyadh and Dallas, as well as launching new direct routes to second-tier Asean and Middle Eastern locations, the city’s chief for the national plan has said. In an exclusive…
Almost 5 per cent of international flights to the Middle East have been cancelled this month due to the escalating Israel-Iran conflict, which has made the region more unstable after the US bombarded key Iranian nuclear sites and Tehran vowed to defend itself. According to data from aviation analytics company Cirium, 1,552 out of 32,583,…
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has said safety is in the “DNA” of its pilots as the airline’s first batch of cadets graduated from an 80-week programme. The airline made the pledge on Friday as the first batch of 34 cadet pilots graduated from its training programme held partly in Hong Kong, including…
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HONG KONG- The flag carrier of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific (CX) has announced that it will commence operations to Munich (MUC) from June 2025 and relaunch its flights to Brussels (BRU) from August 2025. The flights will be operational at a frequency of four times per week. The airline’s announcement comes in light of its…
Text size A cleaning process leading to fuel hose degradation during refurbishment could have caused a recent engine fire on a Cathay Pacific Airbus A350, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said Thursday. EASA said it had widened in an airworthiness directive the number of engine variants potentially affected by the apparent defect, which include…
Europe’s aviation safety agency said Thursday it will require inspection of part of the fleet of Airbus A350 wide-body jets in operation after an engine fire on a Cathay Pacific flight. Rolls-Royce, which makes the engines on Cathay’s A350s, confirmed it was launching “a one-time precautionary engine inspection programme” and was “working very closely” with the…