Trailblazing female captain of Hong Kong’s Cathay juggles flights and motherhood

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Asia

Hongkonger Candy Wu Suk-fun has attended parent-teacher meetings of her two children with such regularity that other parents get the impression she is a full-time stay-at-home mother.
But she is not. Wu is a captain with the city’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways.
She became the airline’s first home-grown female captain in 2009 and continues to juggle her career and raising her daughters, aged 12 and 15, by being extremely conscientious with time management.
“As a mother, it is challenging….

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