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Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (CPA), more widely known as Cathay Pacific (Chinese: 國泰航空), is the largest 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 over 190 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. Cathay Cargo operates two models of the 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), together with Cathay Dragon, transported nearly 27 million passengers and over 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 alliance. 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.

1946–1960: The early years
A Douglas DC-3 named Betsy, Cathay Pacific's first aircraft, in the Hong Kong Science Museum
Cathay Pacific DC-3 Niki
Niki, a DC-3 painted to imitate the appearance of the carrier's second aircraft, outside Cathay City
Cathay Pacific Airways was founded on 24 September 1946 in Hong Kong. Sydney "Syd" de Kantzow, Roy Farrell, Neil Buchanan, Donald Brittan Evans and Robert "Bob" Stanley Russell were the initial shareholders. Buchanan and Russell had already worked for de Kantzow and Farrell at Roy Farrell Import-Export Company, the predecessor of Cathay Pacific, that was initially headquartered in Shanghai. Both de Kantzow and Farrell were Ex-Air Force pilots who had flown The Hump, a route over the Himalayan mountains. Farrell purchased the airline's first aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, nicknamed Betsy, at Bush Field, New York City in 1945.: 29  The company began freight services on 28 January 1950 from Sydney to Shanghai, after Farrell and Russell flew the plane to Australia and obtained a licence to carry freight (but not passengers) earlier that month.: 36–37  Its first commercial flight was a shipment of Australian goods.: 37  The profitable business soon attracted attention from Republic of China government officials.: 44  After several instances where the company's planes were detained by authorities in Shanghai,: 44  on 11 May 1946 the company relocated, flying its two planes to Hong Kong.[18] Farrell and de Kantzow re-registered their business in Hong Kong on 24 September 1946 as Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, while another sister company, The Roy Farrell Export Import Company (Hong Kong) Limited, was incorporated on 28 August 1946 and chartered some flights from Cathay.

They named the airline Cathay, the ancient name given to China, and Pacific because Farrell speculated that they would one day fly across the Pacific : 56  (which happened in the 1970s). Moreover, to avoid the name "Air Cathay" as it had already been used in a comic.: 55  The Chinese name for the company ("國泰") was not settled on until the 1950s. It comes from a Chinese idiom meaning "Peace and Prosperity" and was at the time often used by other businesses called "Cathay" in English.

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Cathay Pacific adalah sebuah maskapai penerbangan nasional Hong Kong yang berpusat di Bandar Udara Internasional Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific dan anak perusahaannya memiliki layanan penumpang dan kargo terjadwal ke lebih dari 19 destinasi di lebih dari 60 negara di seluruh dunia, termasuk codeshare dan joint venture. Pada tahun 2010, Cathay Pacific dan Cathay Pacific Cargo, bersama dengan Cathay Dragon (dulu bernama Dragonair), mengangkut hampir 27 juta penumpang dan lebih dari 1,8 juta ton kargo dan surat. Kode IATA untuk Cathay Pacific adalah CX dan kode ICAOnya adalah CPA.

Cathay Pacific adalah maskapai penerbangan terbesar kelima di dunia berdasarkan penjualan, dan terbesar keempat belas diukur berdasarkan kapitalisasi pasar. Pada tahun 2010, Cathay Pacific menjadi maskapai kargo internasional terbesar di dunia, bersama dengan hub utama Bandara Internasional Hong Kong sebagai bandara tersibuk di dunia diukur dengan lalu lintas kargo. Per Maret 2021, pemegang saham utama Cathay Pacific adalah Swire Group dengan saham sebesar 42,3%, dan Air China dengan saham 28,2%.

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