Company Profile: Cathay Pacific

Cathay Pacific is one of Hong Kong commercial airline company, founded on 24th September, 1946 by

Logo of Cathay Pacific

Roy C. Farrell and Sydney H. de Kantzow. Being one of the largest airline company in the world, Cathay Pacific has a famous slogan "People. They Make Airline". It's main hub is Hong Kong International Airport, and focuses on two international destinations Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport and Taipei Taoyuan International Airport. This airline is the primary founder and also the member of oneworld airline alliance. Currently, John Slosar and Ivan Chu are the chairman and the CEO of Cathay Pacific respectively. In 2014, Skytrax announces Cathay Pacific as world's best airline, beating their rival such as Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways. Cathay Pacific currently serves a total of 70 international at 32 different countries world wide.

Fleets

An A330-300 Cathay Pacific at Adelaide

1. Airbus A330-300 (38 owned, 7 ordered)
2. Airbus A340-300 (13 owned)
3. Airbus A350-900 (22 ordered)

A Boeing 777-300 ER operated by Cathay Pacific

4. Airbus A350-1000 (26 ordered)
5. Boeing 747-400 (8 owned)
6. Boeing 777-200 (5 owned)
7. Boeing 777-300 (12 owned)
8. Boeing 777-300 ER (43 owned, 12 ordered)
9. Boeing 777-9X (21 ordered)
Total Fleets: 117 owned, 87 ordered

Codeshares

1. Air China

2. Air New Zealand
3. Air Seychelles
4. Alaska Airlines
5. American Airlines
6. Bangkok Airways
7. British Airways
8. Comair
9. Dragonair
10. Fiji Airways
11. Finnair
12. Japan Airlines
13. LAN Airlines
14. Malaysia Airlines
15. Phillipine Airlines
16. Qatar Airways
17. S7 Airlines
18. Vietnam Airlines
19. WestJet 

Accidents or Incidents

1. 24th February 1949: A Douglas DC-3 operated by Cathay Pacific in a Manila to Hong Kong flight crashed near Braemar Reservoir because of bad weather, killing all 23 people on board. 

2. 13th September 1949: A Douglas DC-3 Cathay Pacific with Anisakan to Hong Kong route crashed upon take off, all passengers and crew were save. 

3. 23rd July 1954: A Douglas DC-4 Cathay Pacific was shot down by People's Liberation Army Air Force (China) aircraft above the South China sea, 10 of 19 people on board were killed.

4. 5th November 1967: A Convair 880 Cathay Pacific operating flight 33 overran the runway at the Hong Kong airport upon take off to Saigon. 

5. 5th June, 1972: A Convair 880 Cathay Pacific with flight 770Z (Bangkok to Hong Kong) burst in the air after bomb, which believed to be from a suitcaise in the cabin, exploded. This crash kills all 81 people on board the aircraft. 

6. 13th April, 2010: Cathay Pacific flight 780 operated with an Airbus A330-342, in a Surabaya to Hong Kong route, have engine failure at both engines, due to contaminated fuel. But then the aircraft successfully landed at Hong Kong International Airport, no fatalities were reported, but 57 passengers were injured.

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