Cathay Pacific was founded in 1946 by Swire in Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific’s headquarters are currently located in Pekin and the main base in Hong Kong International Airport. Cathay Pacific is not a star alliance member. The company has 5 stars on Skytrax rating. Rupert Hogg leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Cathay Dragon, Air Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Cargo and Hactl.

Cathay Pacific employs more than 33,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 146 aircraft. It has declared $ 12,430,463,100 in revenue. Cathay Pacific offers service to 180 destinations in 77 countries. Guangzhou-Manila,Taipei-Hong Kong,Kuala Lumpur-Hong Kong,Bangkok-Singapore,Peking-Hong Kong,Guangzhou-Singapore,Singapore-Hong Kong are some of the main flight destinations.

Cathay Pacific’s fleet consists of Boeing 777 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 8.3 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Airbus A350 at 1.4 years old. They rank 14 among 23 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Boeing 777 with 69 of them at hand. They rank 33 among 67 airlines operating this type of aircraft.