Don't see why MAN or LON would close, from what I believe, the tax authorities and local terms and conditions of the contracts were sorted back in 2008. Perhaps CDG was similar to the AMS case and the local terms and conditions required for a proper on-shored contract would have been too much in favour of the employee, with various sick leave entitlements etc, so I guess Cathay didn't like this with other reasons decided to close the base. Not sure on the complete reasons to close the base yet but it can't be due to a lack of flights because the double daily flight starts up again soon and the Freight only reduces to 3x weekly so it must be to do with on-shoring.