The head of Cathay Pacific has quit after the airline’s initial position that it would not penalize employees for taking part in the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests caused outrage in China and resulted in firms and customers boycotting the company.
Rupert Hogg, the company’s British chief executive, and Paul Loo, its chief customer and commercial officer, tendered their resignations to the board on Aug. 16, four days after Hogg threatened staff with dismissal for supporting or participating in “illegal protests” in an e-mail that has since been widely circulated in the press and on social media.
