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.

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

Cathay Pacific claimed that Dragonair will continue to operate as a separate airline within the Cathay Pacific group, maintaining its own Air Operator's Certificate and with the brand unchanged, with 2, 976 employees worldwide.

However, the airline will be downsized with five percent of the airline staff retrenched or transferred into Cathay Pacific.

A twelvemonth passed away however before the new company was formed, for the way is long and perilous, and the caravan is not formed every year, but only when a large number arrange to join it, and when it is known that they will be allowed to enter Cathay.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

Before that there had not been any large Frankish catapult in Cathay China, but Talib, a catapult-maker from this land, had gone to Baalbek and Damascus, and his sons Abubakr, Ibrahim, and Muhammad, and his employees made seven large catapults and set out to conquer the city Fu or Hsiang-yang fu = modern Xiangfan.

The Company of Cathay was granted a charter from the crown, giving the company the sole right of sailing in every direction but the east.

In Venice, these books were kept in an abbey whose library henceforth " sparked the Renaissance ", inspired " Leonardo and Michelangelo ", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from Kublai Khan's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return.

* On May 15, 2010, at just before 11: 00am, a Cathay Pacific Airbus A340 commercial flight from Hong Kong was intercepted by two Canadian CF-18 Hornets in response to a bomb threat.

After an incident of air rage ( apparently over a scone ) on a flight to Australia, Gallagher was banned for life from Cathay Pacific airlines ; Gallagher claimed he would " rather walk ".

On 28 March 1976, clubs from Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Fiji participated in the first Hong Kong Sevens Tournament at the Hong Kong Football Club in Happy Valley sponsored by Rothmans ' Tobacco and Cathay Pacific.

Mr Stephen Miller, Dragonair's first CEO, said: Our arrival on the scene was not hailed very enthusiastically by the then Hong Kong government ... we got a lot of opposition from Cathay ( Pacific ).

In January 1990, Cathay Pacific, Swire Group and CITIC Pacific acquired an 89 percent stake in the airline, with CITIC Pacific holding 38 percent ; while the family of the airline's chairman Kuang-Piu Chao reduced their holding from 22 percent to 6 percent, with the remainder held by minor shareholders.

Dragonair's own loyalty programme, The Elite, that was launched on 12 February 2001, was merged into Cathay Pacific's The Marco Polo Club from 1 January 2007.

On that day at 6: 25 am, Cathay Pacific flight 889 was the first commercial flight to land at the airport, pipping the original CX292 from Rome which was the scheduled first arrival.

It was not immediately clear to the Europeans whether this China is the same country as Cathay known from Marco Polo.

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.

De Góis died in Suzhou, Gansu-the first Ming China city he reached-while waiting for an entry permit to proceed toward Beijing ; but, in the words of Henry Yule, it was his expedition that made " Cathay ... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the mouths and minds of men ".

Cathay is finally gone: this 1689 map by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola from Modena identifies it ( and Mangi ) with China

The last nail into the coffin of the idea of there being a Cathay as a country separate from China was, perhaps, driven in 1654, when the Dutch Orientalist Jacobus Golius met with the China-based Jesuit Martino Martini, who was passing through Leyden.

Even then, some people still viewed Cathay as distinct from China, as did John Milton in the 11th Book of his Paradise Lost ( 1667 ).

Below is the etymological progression from Khitan to Cathay as the word travelled westward:

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

While Central Asia had long known China under names similar to Cathay, that country was known to the peoples of South-East Asia and India under names similar to China ( cf.

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