Latest figures from Cathay Pacific show the airline carried just shy of 1.4 million passengers last month – more than 2,300% up on May of last year – as it continues to rebuild flight connectivity at its home base in Hong Kong.
Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Lavinia Lau said: “May was another good month for our travel business. We continued to progressively increase our passenger flight capacity and added more frequencies to popular destinations in the US, South Asia and Japan.
“Although demand reduced temporarily following the Easter holiday peak, it picked up again over the Buddha’s Birthday holiday weekend towards the end of May, with travel to Japan and Thailand being particularly popular. Transit traffic via the Hong Kong hub was also encouraging with considerable demand to and from the Chinese Mainland.“
“The peak summer season looks promising as we expect to get a boost from students returning to Hong Kong after the school term ends. On rebuilding our network, we will bring back the seasonal Christchurch service from 16 December 2023 through to 29 February 2024 with three return flights per week, following the earlier announcement of service resumption to Johannesburg and Chicago from August and October 2023, respectively.”
Cathay Pacific also received the award for World’s Best Inflight Entertainment at the recent 2023 World Airline Awards organised by Skytrax.
