Cathay Pacific to launch direct flights between Hong Kong and Almaty in January

Cathay Pacific Airways will launch direct passenger flights between Hong Kong and Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, in January, making it the airline’s first Central Asian destination and establishing the only non-stop service between the two. The three-times-weekly service will begin on January 9 next year. Flights w

The London-bound Cathay Pacific flight lost contact with air traffic control over Romanian airspace on Jul 4, which triggered the scrambling of two Hungarian fighter jets.