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Review of Operations
Passenger Services
Comments by region are as follows:
North Asia
• We continue to strengthen Hong Kong’s position as
the premier gateway to Mainland China by
increasing the frequencies to secondary cities.
Passenger numbers rose, with more traffic from
Cathay Pacific’s international network.
• Demand on the key Beijing and Shanghai routes
was high, though increased competition had an
impact on yield.
• Busan in South Korea was added as a destination in
January with a thrice-weekly service.
• Services were launched to Fukuoka and Sendai in
October, the former a daily direct service and the
latter flight operating four times a week.
• We withdrew our daily service to Tokyo in October.
• Flights to Kaohsiung were increased from four to
five daily while Taichung was added as a destination
with a daily charter service. Strong competition in
Taiwan kept revenue growth lagging behind capacity
growth.
South East Asia and Middle East
• A daily service to Phuket was started in
December 2006.
• Kota Kinabalu and Phnom Penh services were
strengthened in 2007, though revenue growth
currently lags behind capacity growth.
• Our Dhaka service was affected by visa restrictions
on Bangladeshis travelling through Hong Kong.
• Kathmandu returned to the network in December
with high initial demand for the four-times-weekly
flight.
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