Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific signs up 100 new mainland Chinese cabin crew as it rebuilds post-coronavirus

Cathay says it aims to recruit 1,500 people from across the border by 2025 as it builds back

Airline’s service delivery chief says recruitment of Mandarin speakers ‘obvious’ way to improve diversity

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Cathay Pacific cabin crew recruits who recently completed their training. The airline says it aims to hire 1,500 people from mainland China by 2025. Photo: Dickson Lee

Published: 8:30am, 16 Jan 2024Updated: 10:00am, 16 Jan 2024

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has signed up 100 cabin crew through its first recruitment drive in mainland China and some have already started work, the company has said.

Cathay Pacific on Monday added the new staff were the trailblazers for the 1,500 people it aimed to recruit from across the border by 2025.

Mandy Ng, Cathay’s director of service delivery, said the recruitment of Mandarin-speaking flight attendants was an “obvious” and “very natural” move to expand staff diversity.

“We appreciate a very diverse team of our cabin crew, not only coming from our local recruitment, but also from other areas in Asia and also from mainland China,” she said in an interview last Thursday.

“The mainland Chinese crew will complement our existing very diverse cabin crew community to better serve our customers who actually come from different parts of the world with different backgrounds.”

Flight attendant Lareina Su during a training demonstration. Cathay Pacific has launched a major recruitment drive in mainland China to help rebuild cabin crew numbers in the wake of the coronavirus. Photo: Dickson Lee

Ng added the airline had an increasing number of Mandarin-speaking passengers, not only coming in and out of the mainland, but also across the entire network.

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific signs up 100 new mainland Chinese cabin crew as it rebuilds post-coronavirus

Cathay says it aims to recruit 1,500 people from across the border by 2025 as it builds back Airline’s service delivery chief says recruitment of Mandarin speakers ‘obvious’ way to improve diversity

Cathay says it aims to recruit 1,500 people from across the border by 2025 as it builds back

Airline’s service delivery chief says recruitment of Mandarin speakers ‘obvious’ way to improve diversity