--- description: Less than two weeks after saying it had a ticketing error that gave away premium seats at huge discounts, Cathay Pacific has done it again title: Cathay Pacific Mistakenly Discounted First-Class Seats Again image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bef7008c8472911/69893d6c656a3f19fdbd5cae/gettyimages-1013262274.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Cathay Pacific Mistakenly Sold First-Class Seats for a Tenth the Price in Another Blunder by [Denise Wee / Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Denise Wee / Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 14, 2019 7:02 AM CUT  A Boeing 777-367(ER) passenger plane belonging to Cathay Pacific takes off from the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on Aug. 08 2018. A Boeing 777-367(ER) passenger plane belonging to Cathay Pacific takes off from the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on Aug. 08 2018.Marcio Rodrigo Machado—S3studio/Getty Images by [Denise Wee / Bloomberg](/author/bloomberg/) ## Denise Wee / Bloomberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 14, 2019 7:02 AM CUT Less than two weeks after saying it had a ticketing error that gave away premium seats at huge discounts, Cathay Pacific has done it again. This time, some visitors to their booking site got lucky on flights from Europe to Hong Kong. The South China Morning Post reported Sunday that the carrier offered first-class seats from Portugal to Hong Kong at a tenth of its original price of $16,000\. Since Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. doesn’t fly direct from Lisbon to Hong Kong, the tickets included a leg to London, Zurich or Frankfurt through partner airlines, the newspaper said. “We are aware of the error on some fares from Europe on our website because of an input issue,” a spokeswoman for Cathay said in a statement Sunday, adding the sale of such fares was stopped immediately and being probed. “For the very small number of customers who have purchased these tickets, we look forward to welcoming you on board to enjoy our premium services.” The repeat of the glitch adds to the embarrassment the carrier faced last year when a sophisticated hack on Cathay’s computer systems exposed private information of 9.4 million passengers in the world’s biggest airline data breach. Asia’s largest international carrier is in the midst of a three-year turnaround program after losses in 2016 and 2017, with last year’s earnings due to be announced in March. Around New Year’s day, Cathay sold such discounted round-trip, business-class tickets from Vietnam to Canada and the U.S., and later said it would honor the fares. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/"},"headline":"Cathay Pacific Mistakenly Sold First-Class Seats for a Tenth the Price in Another Blunder","datePublished":"2019-01-14T07:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:56.337Z","description":"The first-class seats from Portugal to Hong Kong were sold at a tenth of the original price","url":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Aviation","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bef7008c8472911/69893d6c656a3f19fdbd5cae/gettyimages-1013262274.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denise Wee / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bef7008c8472911/69893d6c656a3f19fdbd5cae/gettyimages-1013262274.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hong Kong International Airport Features","caption":"Hong Kong International Airport Features","creditText":"Marcio Rodrigo Machado—S3studio/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/","name":"Cathay Pacific Mistakenly Sold First-Class Seats for a Tenth the Price in Another Blunder"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Cathay Pacific Accidentally Sold $16,000 Seats for $675 in Latest Embarrassing Blunder","description":"Cathay Pacific Airways accidentally offers $16,000 seats for the price of $675.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mdLPAGrH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-01-02T16:16:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mdLPAGrH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/","duration":"PT55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5501854/cathay-pacific-ticket-discount-again/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```