Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific has been forced to cancel dozens of flights after a fault was detected in one of its Airbus A350.
The fault in an engine component was first detected on a flight to Zurich, Switzerland, shortly after it took off from Hong Kong on Monday, forcing the aircraft to return to base.
Cathay later grounded all 48 of its A350s in order to carry out inspections and found 15 with the same fault.
In a statement released earlier today, Cathay said three have already been repaired and it expects all aircraft to resume operations by Saturday (7 September).
So far, the airline has cancelled dozens of flights, mostly on regional routes. The following flights have been grounded for up to Thursday, and Cathay said details of further cancellations up to Saturday will be released by 2pm tomorrow:
Tuesday 3 September
Wednesday 4 September
Thursday 5 September
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The fault in an engine component was first detected on a flight to Zurich, Switzerland, shortly after it took off from Hong Kong on Monday, forcing the aircraft to return to base.
Cathay later grounded all 48 of its A350s in order to carry out inspections and found 15 with the same fault.
In a statement released earlier today, Cathay said three have already been repaired and it expects all aircraft to resume operations by Saturday (7 September).
So far, the airline has cancelled dozens of flights, mostly on regional routes. The following flights have been grounded for up to Thursday, and Cathay said details of further cancellations up to Saturday will be released by 2pm tomorrow:
Tuesday 3 September
- Hong Kong to Bangkok: CX 705 / CX 717 / CX 755
- Bangkok to Hong Kong: CX 750 / CX 754 / CX 712
- Bangkok to Singapore: CX 717
- Singapore to Bangkok: CX 712
- Hong Kong to Singapore: CX 659 / CX 691 / CX 759 / CX 739 / CX 735 / CX 711 / CX 715
- Singapore to Hong Kong: CX 690 / CX 734 / CX 716 / CX 692 / CX 710 / CX 658
- Hong Kong to Tokyo (Narita): CX 524 / CX 526 / CX 500
- Tokyo (Narita) to Hong Kong: CX 527 / CX501 / CX 509
- Hong Kong to Osaka(Kansai): CX 596 / CX 502
- Osaka (Kansai) to Hong Kong: CX 595
- Hong Kong to Taipei: CX 464
- Taipei to Hong Kong: CX 469
Wednesday 4 September
- Hong Kong to Tokyo (Narita): CX 524
- Tokyo (Narita) to Hong Kong: CX 509
- Hong Kong to Osaka(Kansai): CX 566
- Osaka (Kansai) to Hong Kong: CX 597 / CX 503
- Hong Kong to Taipei: CX 464 / CX 466 / CX 494
- Taipei to Hong Kong: CX 469 / CX 461 / CX 495
- Hong Kong to Singapore: CX 659
- Singapore to Hong Kong: CX 714 / CX 710 / CX 658 / CX 692
- Hong Kong to Bangkok: CX 705
- Bangkok to Hong Kong: CX 750
- Hong Kong to Beijing: CX 332
- Beijing to Hong Kong: CX 331
- Hong Kong to Shanghai(Pudong): CX 368 / CX 360
- Shanghai (Pudong) to Hong Kong: CX 367 / CX 369
- Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur: CX 723
- Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong: CX 722
- Hong Kong to Kaohsiung: CX 432
- Kaohsiung to Hong Kong: CX 431
- Hong Kong to Manila: CX 919
- Manila to Hong Kong: CX 918
- Hong Kong to Seoul (Incheon): CX 416
Thursday 5 September
- Seoul (Incheon) to Hong Kong: CX 417
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