Airline of the year (Or rather, I mean 3rd best) is on the news
YET AGAIN! This time instead of a labour dispute, it is their epic cost cutting measures that have bitten them back in the ass in the form of water contamination. Why water the dogs in economy class with bottled drinking water when we can give them what other airlines consider to be non-potable water?
Cathay Pacific provides bottled water on flights after samples from tanks fail to meet standards | South China Morning Post
Spoiler!
Cathay Pacific is providing bottled water to 14 planes and sterilising water tanks on those jets after samples of drinking water taken from them failed to meet standards.
The airline said this morning samples taken from a “small number of aircraft” were not up to the airline’s standards and it was arranging sterilisation.
“As a precautionary measure, we will be serving passengers and crew bottled water on those aircraft,” a spokeswoman said.
“Additional bottles of mineral water will be uplifted and we always make sure that a sufficient quantity of water is available in-flight,” she said.
The Health Department said it had been notified by the airline yesterday afternoon that 14 flights were involved.
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The department said health officials were now investigating with the airline and the Airport Authority to find out the cause of the substandard potable water from the Cathay flights.
The airline’s spokeswoman today could not give further details about the test results, such as if the samples involved excessive amounts of bacteria, or which flight routes were affected.
She said the airline’s engineering division had been working with its maintenance and services providers to identify the cause.
She said that as testing would take several days, the affected aircraft would continue to have bottled water uploaded for every flight.
Usual hot beverages and cup noodles would still be served, using boiled water, the spokeswoman added.
The head of the Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, Dora Lai Yuk-sim, said crew members had been told that drinking water from the flights’ tanks must be boiled. She said however they were not told the reason.
Lai hoped the airline could find out the cause quickly.
Of Course, management is still celebrating over winning the 3rd best airline of the year, having losing the title to Qatar and Singapore. (You know, they actually had to pay the cabin+cockpit crew this year, so they couldn't fork out the money to buy the award anymore)