CX back to normal

Cathay Pacific Airways will bring back frequencies that were scaled back, last year, prior to the influenza outbreak. Additional flights will start during the coming summer schedule.

Cathay Pacific Airways sales and marketing manager, Thailand and Myanmar, Yongyut Lujintanon, told TTR Weekly that from 28 March CX will operate 35 flights a week between Bangkok and Hong Kong plus daily flights to Singapore and Delhi, four flights weekly to Karachi and three flights a week to Colombo and Mumbai.

Mr Yongyut said: ?Business has started to pick up in the business sector. As for leisure there has been a slow down, but we expect growth during the coming Chinese New Year, the summer school holidays and Songkran in April.?

Cathay Pacific will start four weekly services to Milan starting 28 March that should benefit the Thai fashion industry.

Also Dragon Air, a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific, may add more flights on the Hong Kong-Phuket route up from the current 10 flights a week.

?The demand for Phuket is very high from Russia and China and we can sell that via the Hong Kong gateway. But the outbound market from Phuket is a problem area. Presently, 80% of the traffic on the route is inbound to Phuket and 20% outbound.?

Sourced = The TTR Weekly