Cathay Pacific City, the headquarters of Cathay Pacific

The airport now serves as a transport hub for East Asia, and as the hub for Cathay Pacific Airways, Dragonair, Hong Kong Express, Hong Kong Airlines ( former CR Airways ), and Air Hong Kong.

* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.

Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.

* 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.

* September 24 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded by Roy C Farrell and H de Kantzow.

Swire Group ( or Swire Pacific ) controls a wide range of businesses, including property ( Swire Properties ), aviation ( i. e. Cathay Pacific and Dragonair ), beverages ( bottler of Coca Cola ), shipping and trading.

SNCF codeshares with Air Austral, Air France, Air Tahiti Nui, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Middle East Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, and SriLankan Airlines.

In April 2010, a tip-off from Cathay Pacific led to the UK Office of Fair Trading investigating alleged price-fixing between Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific on flights to Hong Kong between 2002 and 2006.

Cathay Pacific will benefit from immunity as long as they continue to cooperate with the authorities.

Iberia has a codeshare agreement with several Oneworld members: Cathay Pacific on flights from Amsterdam and London Heathrow to Hong Kong, Japan Airlines on flights from Amsterdam to Tokyo Narita and Royal Jordanian from Madrid to Amman, and with LAN Airlines for flights connecting Latin America and most of Europe.

* Cathay Pacific Cargo

# Cathay Pacific 5. 876 million

# Cathay Pacific 5. 876 million

For example: British Airways flight BA4552 is actually the same flight as CX118 operated by Cathay Pacific ( CX )— both are members of the Oneworld airline alliance.

Previously, only Emirates Airline, Malaysia Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Royal Brunei Airlines flights may check-in at KL CAT before boarding the train.

* Roy C. Farrell ( 1912-1996 )-co-founder of Cathay Pacific

Explorations seeking a natural waterway between the Atlantic and the South Sea with the hope of reaching the Molucas ( Spice Islands — Maluku Islands ) and Cathay ( China ) were also pursued.

Most importantly, when the Jesuits first arrived to Beijing 1598, they also met a number of " Mohammedans " or " Arabian Turks "-visitors or immigrants from the Muslim countries to the west of China, who told Ricci that now they were living in the Great Cathay.

A person from Cathay ( i. e., a Chinese ) was also written in English as a Cathayan or a Cataian.

Clan Eshin was also considered lost for a long time, having traveled to the far Eastern lands of Nippon and Cathay.

Herpa Wings has also produced model aircraft for many of the world's international airlines, which include Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and others.

Cathay Pacific City, the head office of Cathay Pacific, and the head offices of Dragonair and Hong Kong Airlines are also located on the airport platform.

This CD set is unique in containing a map of Cathay ( China ) as represented during the period of the Doctor's visit to China, and also explaining historical inaccuracies.

The Cathay de Grande was a nightclub on the corner of Argyle Street and Selma Avenue in central Hollywood, which featured mostly punk rock bands but also other styles of underground / alternative rock in the 1980s.

McManaman was once described as " England's forgotten man " but was also accused of being apathetic and having a laidback attitude and having a reputation for being a troublemaker, which began after an infamous " dentists ' chair " incident before Euro96, where along with Teddy Sheringham and Gascoigne, McManaman was photographed drinking and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to a Cathay Pacific first class flight cabin.

The films were also distributed to the region and Cathay stars like Ge Lan, You Min, Lin Dai and Yeh Fung became household names in Indochina, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Sarawak, Borneo and of course Singapore and Malaya.

The Cathay Organisation, of which Dato Loke Wan Tho was its Chairman, not only owned and operated cinemas and film studios, produced Malay and Chinese films but also owned and operated hotels and restaurants in Singapore ( The Cathay Hotel and Ocean Park Hotel and their attendant restaurants ) and Fiji ( The Grand Pacific Hotel Suva and The Cathay Hotel Lautoka ).

It has also been suggested that the man " from Cathay " described to have visited Pope Eugenius IV ( 1431 – 1447 ) by Paolo Toscanelli in a 1474 letter to Christopher Columbus, may have been Niccolò de ' Conti, who was returning from the east and is known to have met with Pope Eugenius in 1444:

For Japanese red-eye flights, Cathay Pacific operates one each to Tokyo Narita and Osaka.

During the 1980s, Dubai was a stopping point for airlines such as Air India, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and others travelling between Asia and Europe that needed a refuelling point in the Persian Gulf.

such as in Cathay Pacific Airways ().

The term may still be used poetically or in certain proper nouns, such as Cathay Pacific Airways or Cathay Hotel.

Further away ( less than 2 km ), in the adjacent township, are malls such as The Curve, Ikea, e @ Curve with a 10 screens under Cathay Cineplex and Ikano.

More recently, fan groups have released several " Alternative Settings ," to allow players to fight in other locations, such as Araby ( Relics of the Crusades ), Cathay ( Border Town Burning ), Karak Azgal ( Battles Underground ), Khemri ( Land of the Dead ), Lustria ( Cities of Gold ), Mousillon ( City of Lost Souls ) or Sylvania using the basic Mordheim gaming rules.

Due to problems with neighbors, violence caused in part by punk gangs such as the LADS gang, FFF, HRP and others, and legal problems related to business conflicts, the Cathay de Grande closed in 1985 With Violent Psychosis, The Mentors with El Duce and Circle Jerks performing the farewell show.

In 2010, Dragonair, together with its parent, Cathay Pacific, operated over 138, 000 flights, carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1. 80 billion kg of cargo and mail.

After the September 11 attacks, the airport operated with a CAA exemption that allowed this to continue, although flights to the US and all Qantas-operated flights ( and for a short while Cathay Pacific flights ) were restricted to leaving from gates where a secondary X-ray and metal detector inspection had been set up.

Two out of the only seven 5-star airlines in the world operate flights from the airport, namely: Cathay Pacific and Asiana Airlines.

Airport official Sherly Yunita was reported at the time as stating that concerns about visibility had prompted Singapore Airlines, Jetstar-ValueAir, Air France-KLM, Virgin Blue and Cathay Pacific to cancel several flights to Bali, 340 km ( 210 mi ) to the east.

Asiana, Korean Air as well as Cathay Pacific operate red-eye flights from Hong Kong to Incheon near Seoul as well as Busan by Asiana and Dragonair.

Airlines including AirAsia, Air France, Air Madagascar, Aeroflot, ANA, Asiana, Austrian Airlines, Bangkok Airways, Cathay Pacific, Cebu Pacific, China Airlines, El Al, Emirates Airline, Etihad, Ethiopian Airlines, Eva Air, Garuda Indonesia, Hong Kong Express, Iberworld, Indian Airlines, Iran Air, Japan Air Lines, Jet Airways, Jetstar, Kenya Airways, Korean Air Lines, KLM, Kuwait Airways, MAI, Mahan Air, Malaysia Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Qatar Airways, S7 Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, Thai Airways International, Turkish Airlines, Thai AirAsia, Orient Thai, Tiger Airways, Transaero and Vladivostok Avia arranged special flights from and to U-Tapao to ferry international passengers stranded because of the seizure of the Suvarnabhumi Airport.

In July 2004, the Asian Tribune announced that the joint venture between shareholders of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific airline and the Myanmar Ministry of Transport would soon launch international flights.

In 1993 when Cairns ' new terminal opened, all the airlines, except Qantas, Ansett, Cathay Pacific and Garuda, stopped international flights to Townsville, and eventually by 1995 the remaining airlines ceased international flights to Townsville.