CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS has been granted rights to operate additional services to Beijing and introduce Xiamen from Hong Kong. With these allocations Cathay Pacific intends to increase its three times weekly flights to Beijing to a daily service from December and introduce three rotations per week to Xiamen. In a statement the airline made clear that one priority is the early licensing of services to Shanghai, currently the third-busiest passenger route out of Hong Kong after Taipei and Bangkok. In another development the airline has also procured a 9.9% stake in Air China which could precipitate the Beijing-based carrier joining Oneworld.
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