Air China plane seen at Beijing International Airport. The carrier owns 30 percent of Cathay Pacific. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
Skift Take: Should Air China, which owns 30 percent of Cathay, buy more of the Hong Kong-based airline and become an even stronger China insider at the carrier? Or should it sell and wash its hands of a company that has incurred the wrath of the mainland? The latter sounds highly unlikely.