KABOY
23rd Jan 2024, 02:37
FT (https://www.ft.com/content/191e72da-d26b-4d57-82b7-04623cce6e45)
The pivot to the mainland has commenced, lounges in the ferry terminal, those mainland cadets waiting for the Guangzhou base. COS18 rewritten in simplified Chinese because it’s a handbook after all.
I’m waiting for the CX version of flying upside down, it’s coming…
The carrier is also edging closer to Beijing as it forges a new identity with a home base in the so-called Greater Bay Area, an 11-city metropolis circle in southern China. The moves come after the airline faced backlash in 2019 from Beijing over the participation of some employees in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. One senior Cathay executive told me last month the airline aimed to become the Greater Bay Area’s flag carrier and opened a Shenzhen office in 2022 as an “extended headquarters” in the region.
The pivot to the mainland has commenced, lounges in the ferry terminal, those mainland cadets waiting for the Guangzhou base. COS18 rewritten in simplified Chinese because it’s a handbook after all.
I’m waiting for the CX version of flying upside down, it’s coming…
The carrier is also edging closer to Beijing as it forges a new identity with a home base in the so-called Greater Bay Area, an 11-city metropolis circle in southern China. The moves come after the airline faced backlash in 2019 from Beijing over the participation of some employees in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. One senior Cathay executive told me last month the airline aimed to become the Greater Bay Area’s flag carrier and opened a Shenzhen office in 2022 as an “extended headquarters” in the region.