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HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific is poised to lose nearly $200 million a month from February, the embattled Hong Kong carrier reported yesterday, as the city’s COVID-19 restrictions have seen cargo flights slashed. Hong Kong has maintained some of the world’s harshest travel restrictions, isolating a city that was once one of the world’s largest logistics and transportation hubs. Air crew quarantine measures were further tightened following the discovery that two COVID-positive Cathay staff had breached home quarantine-which resulted in the city’s first outbreak of the hyper-contagious Omicron variant. By January, Cathay’s cargo flights-one of the few sectors where the airline...
