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HONG KONG CHINA (AFP Photo) - A cleaner takes a rest beside a Cathay Pacific plane on the tarmac at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport on 17 April 2003 as a killer pneumonia severely affects passenger travel . The disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has reduced the territory's flagship carrier's passenger schedule by 42 percent forcing cuts to its passenger service. In Sri Lanka, the threat of SARS has adversely affected the travel trade.


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