<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> (show) Transcriptions </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> (show) Transcriptions </Th> </Tr> <P> Cathay Pacific Airways Limited 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 201 destinations in more than 60 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures . Cathay Pacific operates a fleet of wide - body aircraft, consisting of Airbus A330, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777 equipment . 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 Dragonair (rebranded Cathay Dragon), carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail . </P> <P> 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 as of October 2009, its major shareholders are Swire Pacific and Air China . It is reciprocally one of the major shareholders of Air China . On 6 November 2017, Qatar Airways acquired a 9.6% shareholding of Cathay Pacific, becoming its 3rd largest shareholder . </P>

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