Wow: Cathay Pacific Still 40% Below 2019 Passenger Numbers

Global airline seat capacity in April is around 4% ahead of pre-pandemic April 2019, with schedule data showing 112.5 million seats available this year compared to 108.9 million in the same week of 2019. While that’s a promising number globally, the same positivity is certainly not true with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, which carried 40% fewer passengers in March 2024 than in March 2019. Starting from a long way behind Without going over old ground, both Cathay Pacific (Cathay) and Hong Kong International Airport have endured a few horror years, starting in 2019 with political unrest disrupting the airport operations…