Sydney to London, £20,000 return: that, apparently, was a genuine price returned on the Cathay Pacific website. For some, it may have confirmed their worst fears about the impact on aviation of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, and Tehran’s reprisals. In fact, as with BA’s occasional nonsensically expensive UK domestic fares, no one would ever pay that amount; the highest regular fare I have been able to find is around £9,000.
Between Asia, Australasia or Africa and the UK, a large slab of capacity has been taken out of the market.
