Cathay ready to reconnect

Calcutta: Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has written to Mamata Banerjee with a request to help it explore the possibility of a comeback to Bengal after 41 years, saying the “time is right” for a fresh take-off.
The chief minister’s office confirmed receiving the letter on Monday from Tom Wright, Cathay Pacific Airways’s general manager for India, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan.
“We will be grateful if you can arrange a meeting to explore the possibilities of Cathay Pacific or Hong Kong Dragon Airlines (its sister airline) starting scheduled passenger air services from Hong Kong to Calcutta,” says the letter.
Wright was unavailable for comment.
Travel industry representatives said Cathay Pacific’s possible re-entry was the biggest development for civil aviation in the east since the low of British Airways’s exit in March 2009.
Cathay Pacific presently operates flights between Hong Kong and New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The airline also has flights to Europe, the US and Australia, among other countries.
12/07/11 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph

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