HONG KONG - Two months of boiling anti-government protests have divided Hong Kong's people. Now, the unrest has pitted one of the territory's best-known international brands against some of its own employees.
The orders from mainland air safety officials represent an escalation into Hong Kong's business affairs, illustrating the power Beijing wields over international companies that build their fortunes on access to China. Cathay representatives did not respond Sunday when asked how exactly the company planned to enforce the new orders from Beijing. China's aviation regulator was not available for comment.
Still, the employees described an atmosphere of rising fear and anger in response to China's demands, and of unease about how Cathay would carry them out. Other Cathay employees' political activities attracted attention in mainland China after large numbers of the airline's workers called in sick to take part in a recent general strike, which led to scores of flight cancellations.
In a social media commentary Sunday evening, the People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece, said the airline's actions had hardly resolved its"crisis." Cathay rose to pre-eminence by connecting Asia's emerging economies to London, Los Angeles, New York and other centres of wealth in the developed world. Hong Kong prospered by connecting China to the global companies that wanted to do business there.
The airline's founders, Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow, were pilots who had flown missions across the Himalayas to supply Nationalist forces in China during World War II.
Whose fault? It permits the pilot and air hostess on bail to fly, which obviously harm the safety of travelers.
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