We all know that airlines all over the world have significantly trimmed down their flight schedules, as borders across the globe remains shut. But how drastic is the drop in the number of passenger for a single airline? Cathay Pacific has some figures for you.
In an internal memo, Cathay Pacific said that they have only carried just 582 passengers one day this week throughout their entire network. In contrast to the usual 100,000 passengers on a normal day, before the COVID-19 outbreak began, this represents a 99.4% drop.
As initially reported two weeks ago, Cathay Pacific has already scaled down their operation to a bare skeleton passenger flight schedule; operating three times weekly to just 15 destinations.
Instead of cutting more destinations, Cathay Pacific has announced today that they will make further frequency cuts on all of their existing long-haul routes – from initial three times a week to two times a week.
The remaining destinations will maintain their flight frequency at three times per week.
As of 25th March Hong Kong has imposed a transit and entry ban to non-residents, following the lead of Singapore to curb import COVID-19 cases
Singapore Airlines, one of Cathay’s closest competitors, will also be operating to just 15 destinations this month. Like Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines announced last month that they will be operating at only 3% flight capacity in April; no flight details have been disclosed.
Now that the timetable for April is out, here are the destinations that Singapore Airlines will be flying to this month:
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