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By Stan Henderson MORE than 110,000 visitors returned to Bord Bia Bloom 2022 in the Phoenix Park over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Following a three-year…

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HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong is further tightening quarantine rules for airline staff, with cargo pilots isolating at home to be tracked with electronic monitoring bracelets and crew on passenger planes who have been in countries with high levels of the virus made to quarantine for 14 days.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong health officials have asked airlines to begin maintaining separate teams that will fly exclusively to and from mainland China to further reduce the risk of Covid-19 entering the country.

The “Queen of the Skies,” which will soon retire from the airline’s passenger fleet, has played a pivotal role in transforming Cathay Pacific and developing Hong Kong as an international aviation hub. As Cathay Pacific Airways prepares to bid farewell to its iconic Boeing 747, which will be retired from the passenger fleet after it performs its final operation, a return journey from Hong Kong to Haneda Airport in Tokyo on 30 September and 1 October, the airline’s staff have been recalli...