Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., Asia’s biggest international carrier, says it’s getting tougher to find premium fliers from Hong Kong. The lack of first and business-class travelers from the Asian financial center — the worst since the global financial crisis days of 2009 — is such a dent on Cathay’s financials that analysts are asking whether Chief Executive Officer …

  Bloomberg Chinese airlines need to hire almost 100 pilots a week for the next 20 years to meet skyrocketing travel demand. Facing a shortage of candidates at home, carriers are dangling lucrative pay packages at foreigners with cockpit experience. Giacomo Palombo, a former United Airlines pilot, said he’s being bombarded every week with offers to fly Airbus A320s in …

  Bloomberg China will restrict the operations of North Korean national airline Air Koryo after one of its planes had to make an emergency landing last month because of a fire on board, it said. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will take “relevant measures to limit operations” for the carrier, it said in a statement on its website, …