Cathay Pacific to hire more cabin crew from China

BLOOMBERG 

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will recruit more cabin crew from mainland China and widen the use of Mandarin language on flights, its chief executive officer said, less than a month after the carrier fired three flight attendants for disparaging passengers who didn’t speak English.
“With the growing number of Putonghua-speaking customers, it has always been our intention to recruit a proportion of cabin crew from the Chinese mainland after the pandemic,” CEO Ronald Lam said in a note to staff seen by Bloomberg News.
“We plan to start the recruitment process of cabin crew in the Chinese mainland from July.”
Cathay’s majority shareholder is the Asian arm of British conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd with a 45% stake. Air China Ltd holds 29.9%.