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Cathay adds extra services to Europe

Wednesday, 16 February 20113 min read

Cathay Pacific is increasing capacity on a number of routes including Milan, Paris, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bangkok and Delhi.

The airline will increase the frequency of its Milan service from four flights a week to daily from July 1, subject to government approval.

Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler said: “Demand to and from Milan has been very encouraging since we launched the route in March last year and we are pleased to be able to strengthen the service.”

From March 27, the airline will add three extra flights to Paris making a twice-daily service to the French capital. The additional flights will operate via Amsterdam.

Surabaya will become a daily service with the addition of one more flight a week. Three additional flights to Jakarta will also be added effective August 15.

Services to and from Malaysia will also be enhanced with three Penang flights that currently go via Kuala Lumpur becoming direct flights from March 27.

In addition, the airline will employ larger aircraft on the Bangkok-Delhi services from Hong Kong.