HAPPY BIRTHAY CATHAY PACIFIC

CATHAY PACIFIC                 Photo Credit:  Lloyd Fox 

Happy 72nd Birthday Cathay Pacific, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited 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 more than 190 destinations in more than 60 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. Cathay Pacific Cargo operates two models of the Boeing 747, the 400 and 8. Cathay Pacific was founded on 24 September 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell. 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, its major shareholders are Swire Pacific and Air China. It is reciprocally one of the major shareholders of Air China. On 6 November 2017, Qatar Airways acquired a 9.6% shareholding of Cathay Pacific, becoming its 3rd largest shareholder. Cathay Pacific is the world's tenth largest airline measured in terms of sales, and fourteenth largest measured in terms of market capitalisation. Wholly owned subsidiary airline to Cathay pacific is Cathay Dragon who operates to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Pacific Cargo, together with Dragonair (rebranded Cathay Dragon), carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail. It is one of the founding members of the Oneworld alliance. Cathay Pacific's subsidiary Cathay Dragon is an affiliate member of Oneworld.  Cathay Pacific is an award-winning and globally reputed airline, winning the "World's Best Airline" award four times and consistently ranking as among the best airlines in the world

Cathay Pacific Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers					Notes
			F	J	W	Y	Total
Airbus A330-300	34	—	—	24	—	293	317	One aircraft in Oneworld livery.
				39	21	191	251
				39	—	223	262
Airbus A350-900	22	6	—	38	28	214	280
Airbus A350-1000	3	17	—	46	32	256	334
Boeing 777-200	3	—	—	42	—	293	335	To be Phased out.
Boeing 777-300	13	4	—	42	—	396	438	One aircraft in The Spirit of Hong Kong (2017) livery Five second-hand aircraft will be added to the fleet from 2018.
			—	42	—	356	398	To be reconfigured with 438 seats. Launch customers
Boeing 777-300ER	53	—	6	53	34	182	275	To be reconfigured with 294 seats
			6	53	34	201	294	One aircraft in Asia's World City livery
			—	40	32	268	340	To be reconfigured with 368 seats
			—	40	32	296	368
Boeing 777-9	—	21	TBA
Total	127	49

Information sourced from Wikipedia