Hong Kong: Due to tougher quarantine regulations for aircrews, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airlines is banning cargo flights for a week, potentially putting a burden on global supply chains.

Long-haul flights to Europe, across the Pacific, and to Riyadh and Dubai have been cancelled until January 6, according to the airline. It vowed to try to "minimise the interruption" for clients. After the quarantine for Cathay Pacific flight crews returning from abroad was extended to one week in a hotel room for three days, the airline's personnel is pushed thin.

The South China media said on Thursday that the lengthier quarantine would leave Cathay with insufficient pilots for all of its flights.  According to news reports, the airline had urged employees to volunteer for a "closed-loop system" in which they would work for three-week stints with brief stopovers in Hong Kong, but too few said yes.

Due to workforce shortages, Cathay Pacific said earlier this year that it would lower its passenger flight schedule in the first three months of 2022.

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