Cathay Pacific is learning a hard lesson on pilots

Cathay Pacific is learning a hard lesson on pilots
Cathay cut hundreds of pilots after covid struck. (Image: Supplied)
Bloomberg
By Tim CulpanCathay Pacific Airways is facing a crisis of its own making. While the problems started in 2020 at the height of the covid pandemic, the current drama of cancelled flights and a rush to rewrite the airline’s operational handbook was foreseeable and preventable.The first sign of danger came in December when hundreds of flights were cancelled over the Christmas-New Year period due to a shortage of pilots. The airline blamed a higher-than-normal rate of illness. Cathay then scrapped around a dozen flights a day through to t...

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