Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
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| Founded | 24 September 1946 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Hong Kong International Airport | ||||||
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| Alliance | Oneworld | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 146 | ||||||
| Destinations | 180 | ||||||
| Company slogan | Life Well Travelled | ||||||
| Headquarters | Cathay City, Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong | ||||||
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| Revenue |
 HK$92,751 million (2016)
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| Operating income |
HK$223 million (2016)
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| Net income |
-HK$274 million (2016)
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| Employees | 23,000 (Oct 2016, Cathay Pacific), 33,800 (Oct 2016, incl. subsidiaries) | ||||||
| Website | cathaypacific.com | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 國泰航空公司 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 国泰航空公司 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Guótài Hángkōng gōngsī |
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| Romanization | Get5(or gok5)tai4 Hong2kung1 Gung1su1 |
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| Yale Romanization | Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī |
| Jyutping | Gwok3taai3 Hong4hung1 Gung1si1 |
Cathay Pacific (Chinese: 國泰航空) (: 0293) is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to 180 destinations in 44 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet of wide-body aircraft, consisting of Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 equipment. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Cathay Dragon, operates to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific, together with Dragonair (rebranded Cathay Dragon), carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail.
The airline was founded on September 24, 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell, with each man putting up HK$1 to register the airline. The airline made the world's first non-stop transpolar flight flying over the North Pole in July 1998, which was also the maiden flight to arrive at the then new Hong Kong International Airport. The airline celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2006; and as of October 2009[update], its major shareholders are Swire Pacific and Air China. It is reciprocally one of the major shareholders of Air China. Cathay Pacific is the world's tenth largest airline measured in terms of sales, and fourteenth largest measured in terms of market capitalisation. In 2010, Cathay Pacific became the world's largest international cargo airline, along with main hub Hong Kong International Airport as the world's busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic.
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