Cathay Pacific would add more direct flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong from April. The Hong Kong-based full service airline will also introduce its new product line of the premium economy cabin on this route after launching it in Delhi and Chennai last year.
The airline that has India route among the top 10 revenue earners will add three more direct flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong as it withdraws stopover flights from the finance city to Hong Kong via Bangkok. The network carrier said 75 per cent of its passenger carriage is transit passengers mainly to China and the west coast of US.
Charlie Stewart – Cox, Cathay’s newly appointed General Manager for South East Asia, Middle East and Africa based out of Mumbai said that in the current downturn India as a market is still robust and is one of the few economies that are growing.
Cox said that for Cathay 2013 will be a good year in India as the company has increased flights in this market last year by adding eight per cent more capacity compared to 2011 and it will continue to seek growth opportunities and add more products in this market, Cox said.
Cathay is betting big on its premium economy cabin as this new product which Cathay says it is the only airline to offer from the Indian market is slated to push the yields up by 30 per cent for the airline.
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