Cathay Pacific

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
國泰航空
IATA ICAO Call sign
CX CPA CATHAY
Founded24 September 1946; 78 years ago (1946-09-24)
AOC #1[1]
HubsHong Kong International Airport
Focus citiesTaoyuan International Airport[citation needed]
Frequent-flyer programCathay[2]
AllianceOneworld
Subsidiaries
Fleet size179 (incl cargo)
Destinations83 (incl cargo)
Traded asSEHK: 293
HeadquartersCathay City, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China[3]
Key people
Founders
RevenueIncrease HK$94.485 billion (2023)[4]
Operating incomeIncrease HK$15.125 billion (2023)[4]
ProfitIncrease HK$9.790 billion (2023)[4]
Total equityDecrease HK$60.033 billion (2023)[4]
EmployeesMore than 23,800 (2023)[4]
Websitewww.cathaypacific.com
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
Traditional Chinese國泰航空公司
Simplified Chinese国泰航空公司
Cantonese YaleGwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī
JyutpingGwok3taai3 Hong4hung1 6gung1si1
Literal meaningCathay Aviation Limited Company
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuótài Hángkōng gōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGwoktaai Hòhnghūng Gūngsī
JyutpingGwok3taai3 Hong4hung1 6gung1si1
Cathay Pacific Airlines
Traditional Chinese國泰航空
Simplified Chinese国泰航空
Cantonese YaleGwoktaai Hòhnghūng
JyutpingGwok3taai3 Hong4hung1
Literal meaningCathay Aviation
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuótài Hángkōng
Hakka
RomanizationGet5(or gok5)tai4 Hong2kung1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGwoktaai Hòhnghūng
JyutpingGwok3taai3 Hong4hung1
Brand name in Chinese
Traditional Chinese國泰
Simplified Chinese国泰
Cantonese YaleGwoktaai
JyutpingGwok3taai3
Literal meaningcountry (being) prosperous / Cathay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuótài
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGwoktaai
JyutpingGwok3taai3

Cathay Pacific 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 its subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 190[5][6] 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.[7] Cathay Cargo operates two models of 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[8]), together with Cathay Dragon, transported nearly 27 million passengers and more than 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. 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.[9] As of 2024, it is ranked as the fifth best airline in the world.[10]

  1. ^ "Air Operator's Certificate". Civil Aviation Department. Archived from the original on 19 June 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Welcome to Cathay". Cathay Pacific. Archived from the original on 23 August 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference HQReg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c d e 2023 Annual Results (PDF) (Report). Cathay Pacific. 13 March 2024. pp. 17–20. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Airline Fleet – Cathay Pacific". Cathaypacific.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  8. ^ Jeffrey, Rebecca (23 February 2023). "Cathay rebrands and refreshes cargo services". Air Cargo News. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  9. ^ "World Airline Rankings". Flight Global. 2019.
  10. ^ "The World's Top 10 Airlines of 2023". SKYTRAX. Retrieved 18 April 2024.