Cathay Pacific In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Pacific Cargo, together with Dragonair (rebranded Cathay Dragon), carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail. The airline was founded on 24 September 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell. The airline made the world's first non-stop transpolar flight flying over the North Pole in July 1998, which was also the maiden flight to arrive at the then new Hong Kong International Airport. The airline celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2006; and , its major shareholders are Swire Pacific and Air China. It
Cathay City Hong Kong International Airport. Cathay City has of space and is one of the largest corporate head office facilities in Asia. Cathay City includes three 10-storey office buildings, a 23-storey staff hotel, a flight training centre with a safety training school, a workshop and storage building, a leisure centre, and an airline stores building. The centre has a steel pedestrian bridge. The head office of Air Hong Kong, as of 2004, is located on the fourth floor of the South Tower of Cathay City. In February 2012 FlightSafety International and Gulfstream Aerospace, in a venture with Cathay Pacific, opened a