Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has apologised over a string of flight cuts and said it had set up a taskforce to investigate, after the city’s leader urged the flagship carrier to rebuild its flight capacity quickly. In a statement on Wednesday, the airline said it had completed its planned flight consolidations. Earlier, Cathay Pacific announced that it would cancel a dozen flights a day until the end of February to ensure normal operation during the Chinese New Year peak travel period between February 7 and 18. The decision came after the airline made last-minute flights cancellations on the las…