Cathay City, Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, China[4]
Key people
Patrick Healy (Chairman)
Ronald Lam (CEO)
Revenue
HK$51.036 billion (2022)[5]
Operating income
HK$3.546 billion (2022)[5]
Profit
−HK$6.547 billion (2022)[5]
Total equity
HK$63.884 billion (2022)[5]
Employees
More than 21,200 (2022, including subsidiaries)[5]
Website
www.cathaypacific.com
Cathay City, the corporate headquarters of Cathay Pacific.
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
Traditional Chinese
國泰航空公司
Simplified Chinese
国泰航空公司
Cantonese Yale
Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3 Hong4hung1 6gung1si1
Literal meaning
Cathay Aviation Limited Company
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Guótài Hángkōng gōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3 Hong4hung1 6gung1si1
Cathay Pacific Airlines
Traditional Chinese
國泰航空
Simplified Chinese
国泰航空
Cantonese Yale
Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3 Hong4hung1
Literal meaning
Cathay Aviation
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Guótài Hángkōng
Hakka
Romanization
Get5(or gok5)tai4 Hong2kung1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Gwoktaai Hòhnghūng
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3 Hong4hung1
Brand name in Chinese
Traditional Chinese
國泰
Simplified Chinese
国泰
Cantonese Yale
Gwoktaai
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3
Literal meaning
country (being) prosperous / Cathay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Guótài
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Gwoktaai
Jyutping
Gwok3taai3
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (CPA), more widely known as Cathay Pacific (Chinese: 國泰航空), is the largest carrier of Hong Kong with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and its subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to over 190[6][7] destinations and more than 60 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet consisting of Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 aircraft.[8] Cathay Cargo operates two models of the Boeing 747. Defunct wholly-owned subsidiary airline Cathay Dragon, which ceased operations in 2020, operated to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Cargo (previously Cathay Pacific Cargo[9]), together with Cathay Dragon, transported nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail.
Cathay Pacific was founded on 24 September 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell. The airline celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016. As of March 2024, its major shareholders are Swire Pacific with a 45% stake, Air China with 30% and Qatar Airways with 9.9%.
Cathay Pacific is one of the founding members of Oneworld alliance. The airline is ranked as a 5-star airline and has been ranked as the world's best airline four times by Skytrax. In 2018, it was the 19th-largest airline group in the world ranked by traffic.[10] and as of 2023 it is ranked as the eight best airlines in the world.[11]
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^ abcde2022 Annual Results (PDF) (Report). Cathay Pacific. 8 March 2023. pp. 17–19. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
^Cathay Pacific (2017). Cathay Pacific Airways Limited – Cathay Pacific Fact Sheet 2017 (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
^Cathay Pacific (2016). Cathay Pacific Airways Limited – Interim Report 2016 (PDF) (Report). p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
^"Airline Fleet – Cathay Pacific". Cathaypacific.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
^Jeffrey, Rebecca (23 February 2023). "Cathay rebrands and refreshes cargo services". Air Cargo News. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
^"World Airline Rankings". Flight Global. 2019.
^"The World's Top 10 Airlines of 2023". SKYTRAX. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
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major airlines (All Nippon Airways, American Airlines, British Airways, CathayPacific, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, Qantas, and United Airlines) played...
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particular flights to cover more than 16,000 km (9,900 mi; 8,600 nmi). CathayPacific flights from Hong Kong to New York–JFK will also sometimes fly 15,000 km...
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Global Information
HK$51.036 billion (2022)[5]
−HK$6.547 billion (2022)[5]