Cathay Pacific Airways is to cut 90 per cent of its services to mainland China for two months as it combats the fallout from the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Hong Kong’s battered flagship airline will reduce overall flight capacity by about 30 per cent, its chief executive Augustus Tang Kin-wing said on Tuesday.
The carrier, one of Asia’s premium airlines and one of the biggest corporate victims of several months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong, has seen passenger numbers collapse by 50 per cent in recent days, sources said, citing comments from a briefing on Monday led by Mark Hoey, the airline’s general manager of operations.
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Of course, pretty flaky analysis, doesn’t consider undetected/unreported cases, relative growth rates in case numbers by location, ability of a country to report, the low reliability of small numbers as indicators, and so on. Nor does it consider crowding and concentration of cases in cities. If you did, you’d note Australia’s relative “hotspot“.
Gold Coast, 2, 0.68m, 1/340,000.
Not seeking to instil fear, quite the opposite. ....
The ABC has lost the plot...
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Oh they were ropable! Their cruise was rediverted to Singapore which at the time - not sure now - had more cases than HK. And they were only in transit for an hour or so.
The ABC has lost the plot...
They are given a refund or voucher for the amount they paid. Which when it’s your annual holiday means it’s another 12 months before the holiday can be undrtaken. They won’t be booking Celebrity again. They won’t be receiving any recompense for flights because they flew them - over a three day period, in and out again. So that’s a few thousand dollars gone right there.Any feedback on whether those turned away from the cruise are getting recompense?
Just based in Adelaide and this week (today actually) have had several thousands of dollars of consulting work halted. And we are only talking of interstate work.
Oh not our decision at all. Happy to travel. But Clients needed to regroup to cater for the significant disruption to their industry that has been created by coronavirus and all the travel bans from China of non citizens.Why? As with that recounted by pauly7 (who says he had to 'obtain permission' to travel to BNE), this seems beyond the pale.
I understand the reluctance about some Asian travel (or elsewhere internationally) but domestically?
Awful for the locals. I wonder why - did they not have access to immunisation?In the meantime... anyone hear about the 5000 measles cases out of population of 200000 with 80 deaths in Samoa in the last 3 months?
Yes.In the meantime... anyone hear about the 5000 measles cases out of population of 200000 with 80 deaths in Samoa in the last 3 months?
In the meantime... anyone hear about the 5000 measles cases out of population of 200000 with 80 deaths in Samoa in the last 3 months?