Cathay Pacific to Start 5 Daily Flights to London by April 2023

By the end of March, the Cathay Pacific company anticipates using only half of its pre-pandemic capacity.

Beginning in April, five round-trip flights per day will be available to London on selected days.

The airline group located in Hong Kong transported more than 1.1 million passengers in February with a load factor of 86.2% as capacity increased by 6% over January due to the rebuilding of schedules.

Lavinia Lau, chief customer and commercial officer, said: “We are pleased to see that our positive start to 2023 continued in February.

“Travel demand overall remained strong across our network, especially traffic to and from the Chinese mainland via the Hong Kong hub. We are pleased to see that demand is also growing for premium travel for both business and leisure purposes.

“Turning to March and beyond, we are making good progress in increasing our capacity and rebuilding connectivity at the Hong Kong international aviation hub. 

“By the end of March, the Cathay Group will be operating approximately 50% of pre-pandemic passenger flight capacity, covering more than 70 destinations.

“We continue to add more flights to our schedule, in particular for some of our most popular destinations. 

“London will start to see five return flights a day on select days from April. 

“For Japan, we plan to step up from the current 73 to 120 return flights per week by the summer peak. 

“Meanwhile, for the Chinese mainland, we aim to operate more than 110 return flights per week to 15 cities by the end of this month, including resuming services to Shanghai Hongqiao airport, which will be welcomed by business travellers, and Haikou.

“Customers travelling between Beijing and Hong Kong can also look forward to the return of first class on select flights starting from 26 March.First class will also return on select Los Angeles flights from 26 March.”