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In 1577 the Company of Cathay was formed to support Martin Frobisher ’ s hunt for the Northwest Passage, although Frobisher and his investors quickly became distracted by reports of gold at Hall ’ s Island.
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.
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.
* 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 ".
Thus, western Siberia was Muscovite or Russian Tartary, Xinjiang and Mongolia were Chinese or Cathay Tartary, western Turkestan ( later Russian Turkestan ) was known as Independent Tartary, and Manchuria was East Tartary.
Dragonair was the first local competitor for Hong Kong's largest airline, Cathay Pacific, in forty years ; and since the airline's inception, Cathay Pacific fought vigorously to block the airline's flight-slot applications.
The airline was disadvantaged in that Hong Kong's financial secretary back then, Sir John Bembridge, was a former Cathay Pacific chairman.
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 ).
It was later discovered that Cathay Pacific was concentrating on a boom in travel elsewhere in the 1980s, and left the undeveloped mainland China market to Dragonair.
A Hong Kong newspaper reported that Swire Pacific was in advanced negotiations that would see Cathay Pacific taking over Dragonair.
This was dismissed outright by Tony Tyler, then Chief Operating Officer of Cathay Pacific who said " We have no plans to change that structure right now ... we are happy with the structure of the shareholding in Dragonair at the moment.
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.
The airline's ground handling services subsidiary, Hong Kong International Airport Services Ltd ( HIAS ), was merged with Hong Kong Airport Services Ltd ( HAS ) on 1 November 2008 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific on 1 December 2008.
Gilbert was one of the leading advocates for a north-west passage to the land of Cathay ( present-day China ), noted in great detail for its abundance of riches by Marco Polo in the 13th century.
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.
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, ibn Battuta, Marco Polo all were referring to Northern China as Cathay, while Southern China, ruled by the Song dynasty, was Mangi, Manzi, Chin, or Sin.

Cathay and founded
* 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
* September 24 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded by Roy C Farrell and H de Kantzow.
* September 24 – The Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific is founded.
Two years later, they founded the Cathay Life Insurance Company, which at the time of his death was the largest life insurance company in Taiwan.
After establishing firm family control over Cathay Life in 1979, they founded the Lin Yuan Group.
He died of heart disease at the age of 81 in Taipei's Cathay General Hospital, which he founded in 1977.
He founded the Cathay Hotel ( now the Peace Hotel ) but left under increasing Japanese pressure in 1941.

Cathay and .
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.
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.
** 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.
* March 17 – The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
A Cycle of 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.
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.
The Queen sold the Royal Navy ship Ayde to the Company of Cathay and provided £ 1000 towards the expenses of the expedition.
London: Cathay Books, 1975.
In the Italian romantic epic Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Bukhara is called Albracca and described as a major city of Cathay.
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.

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