Cathay Pacific cabin crew are smiling again after resolving their pay dispute with management.
Union leaders had threatened the airline with a work-to-rule policy, meaning that crew might stop serving some inflight refreshments and might no longer greet customers with a smile.
The dispute threatened to disrupt flights over the peak holiday period, but now the union, which had been asking for a 5% pay rise, said its concerns had been resolved, according to the BBC.
It is understood that the airline did not increase its offer of a 2% pay increase but it had agreed to longer rest time on certain flight patterns.
Cathay has also agreed to keep crew based outside Hong Kong to a maximum of 15% of total cabin crew for the next two years
