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Cathay Pacific axes US crew bases
Cathay Pacific recently announced it plans to shut down its three US crew bases with the loss of nearly 300 jobs.
The airline is in talks with unions over the future of 286 US based crew at New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
While the airline is still committed to the North America market ‘it is no longer viable’ to have permanent crew bases stateside.
Cathay says it is ‘impossible to predict’ when demand will pick up again.
It is currently flying about one-tenth of normal passenger traffic across its network.
In March, Cathay Pacific Group airlines carried just over 300,000 passengers, a 90% drop on the same month a year ago.
Cathay closed its Canada crew bases in Toronto and Vancouver over the past few months due firstly to the downturn caused by the months-long Hong Kong protests, and now the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The airline has slashed its US flight schedule to just two weekly flights to Los Angeles at the moment.
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