Foreign pilots and cabin crew are refusing to fly to Hong Kong over fears of testing positive for Covid-19, as United Airlines and American Airlines (AA) became the first carriers to suspend flights to the city on Thursday over new mandatory-testing rules for aircrew.The first batch of results from mandatory aircrew tests uncovered four cases, including three locally-based pilots working for Hong Kong Air Cargo, a unit of Hong Kong Airlines, who had just returned from Almaty in Kazakhstan.“We…
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