A former customer services officer with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways, who spent more than 15 years on the run, has been arrested and remanded in custody for allegedly accepting bribes to help a human trafficking syndicate smuggle travellers overseas. Former Cathay employee Tsui Ying-kit, 44, was escorted to West Kowloon Court on Tuesday afternoon…
Four Hong Kong Airlines passenger flights touched down at the city’s airport while the highest typhoon signal was still in force on Sunday, with experts saying such landings were possible under the right wind and operational conditions. The four flights, which came from Chongqing, Tokyo, Beijing and Denpasar, landed between 2.25pm and 4.04pm. The average…
Home » AIRLINE NEWS » Hong Kong as Cyclone Wipha Hits Creates Unprecedented Disruptions, Leading Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific to Cancel Multiple Flights to and from the City Monday, July 21, 2025 Hong Kong is bracing itself as 24 million people in China are warned that Super Typhoon Wipha, the largest storm on earth…
Four Hong Kong Airlines passenger flights touched down at the city’s airport while the highest typhoon signal was still in force on Sunday, with experts saying such landings were possible under the right wind and operational conditions. The four flights, which came from Chongqing, Tokyo, Beijing and Denpasar, landed between 2.25pm and 4.04pm. The average…
Hong Kong airport is scrambling to deal with a backlog of 500 cancelled flights for about 100,000 passengers, with some people waiting there since Saturday amid the upheaval caused by Typhoon Wipha. Chris Au Young, the Airport Authority’s general manager of terminal and passenger experience, said on Sunday afternoon that about 400 rescheduled flights would…
Cathay Pacific Airways has announced widespread delays and cancellations of flights to and from Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday, as Typhoon Wipha approaches the region. In a travel advisory issued on Saturday, the airline said that all flights scheduled to depart or arrive between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on July 20 will be…
Tropical Storm Wipha is edging nearer to Hong Kong and is expected to keep intensifying, bringing strong winds and torrential rain. The Post explains how you can prepare for the coming bad weather, with Wipha forecast to be closest to the city on Sunday. 1. What’s the situation for domestic helpers? Under local labour laws,…
PUBLISHED : 18 Jul 2025 at 16:03 Small Medium Large Cathay has said flight CX705 was originally scheduled to depart from Hong Kong to Bangkok at 8am on Thursday, but was delayed due a technical issue that occurred during boarding. (Photo: South China Morning Post) Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways has apologised…
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways apologised to passengers twice on Thursday after an aircraft experienced two separate technical issues on the same day, one of which forced passengers to sit on board the plane without air conditioning, causing significant delays to two destinations. Cathay Pacific said on Thursday night that flight CX705 was originally scheduled…
HK Express, the budget carrier of Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways, mistakenly directed a member to log into another customer’s account due to a “scripting error”, enabling him to access the other’s personal information including their birth date, according to the privacy watchdog’s latest investigations. The other seven data leak cases revealed on Monday by…