Cathay Pacific opening Israel office, expands Tel Aviv flights
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific plans to open an office in Israel and upgrade its Tel Aviv route to a daily service next year.
Cathay Pacific’s Israel manager, Jonathan Bailey cites strong demand on the route.
"The company’s agenda is to allocate airliners to destinations for which we see strong demand, and it can therefore be assumed that we will also increase the frequency of the flights to daily."
"The segment that surprised us was business class, both in comparison with other countries and with the forecasts," said Bailey, saying business travel demand is ‘huge.’
Cathay Pacific first launched flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport in March.
It currently offers four to six weekly flights to Tel Aviv on 280-seat Airbus A350 planes.
The airline says it may introduce the larger Airbus A350-1000 variant from next year which adds an extra 10% seat capacity.
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