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From Appledaily HongKong:
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair are continuing their consolidation. After the closure of Dragonair's Bangkok service on Sep 27 and the pending opening of Cathay's daily Shanghai service in December, the newspaper report said the second wave of consolidation is coming soon.
About 300 of 3826 employees of Dragonair will be laid off. They are mainly administrative staffs (such as call centres, marketing, operations, etc.), which functions will be solely performed by Cathay Pacific. Remaining staffs of affected departments will merge into Cathay's respective departments. Dragonair will concentrate on opening services to regional destinations. With new destinations pending, probably front line staffs such as ground staffs and FAs will not be affected by the lay-off. The report said the Dragonair is considering reopening HongKong-Phuket (which was suspended after the 2004 Tsunami and has not been re-opened since then) by the end of October and also opening of HongKong-Busan (Pusan) before the end of 2006. Currently, Korean Air serves HongKong-Busan with 737-800s.
Cathay Pacific said the Dragonair brand will be kept separated for at least 6 years. So we are not going to see those A320s painted in Cathay's livery any time soon. But probably route consolidation will continue.
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair are continuing their consolidation. After the closure of Dragonair's Bangkok service on Sep 27 and the pending opening of Cathay's daily Shanghai service in December, the newspaper report said the second wave of consolidation is coming soon.
About 300 of 3826 employees of Dragonair will be laid off. They are mainly administrative staffs (such as call centres, marketing, operations, etc.), which functions will be solely performed by Cathay Pacific. Remaining staffs of affected departments will merge into Cathay's respective departments. Dragonair will concentrate on opening services to regional destinations. With new destinations pending, probably front line staffs such as ground staffs and FAs will not be affected by the lay-off. The report said the Dragonair is considering reopening HongKong-Phuket (which was suspended after the 2004 Tsunami and has not been re-opened since then) by the end of October and also opening of HongKong-Busan (Pusan) before the end of 2006. Currently, Korean Air serves HongKong-Busan with 737-800s.
Cathay Pacific said the Dragonair brand will be kept separated for at least 6 years. So we are not going to see those A320s painted in Cathay's livery any time soon. But probably route consolidation will continue.
