page_title: Cathay Pacific
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Cathay Pacific / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Cathay 866 to Washington DC. Thanks to the summer solar angle, we're able to spot this "renowned" flight before it went dark!
context_page_description: Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., more widely known as Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 190 destinations in more than 60 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet consisting of Airbus A330, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777 wide-body aircraft. Cathay Pacific Cargo operates two models of the Boeing 747. Wholly owned subsidiary airline Cathay Dragon operates to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Pacific Cargo, together with 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 celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016; and as of March 2018, its major shareholders are Swire Pacific, with a 45% stake and Air China, with a 29% stake.
context_section_description: Cathay Pacific operates an all-wide-body, twin-engine commercial fleet composed of Airbus A330, Airbus A350, Boeing 777 aircraft and a Boeing 747 cargo fleet. The airline also has more Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X aircraft on order.
caption: A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000 XWB taking off from Hong Kong International Airport.
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