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ANNUAL REPORT 2014
72014 in Review
week in June 2014. We stopped cargo flights to
Manchester in June 2014. The frequency of cargo flights
to Chicago and Los Angeles was increased. We launched
new cargo services to Calgary in October 2014, to
Phnom Penh in November 2014 and to Kolkata in
March 2015.
• 2014 was the first full year of operation of our cargo
terminal at Hong Kong International Airport. It made our
cargo operations more efficient. It handled 1.45 million
tonnes of cargo in 2014. It handles cargo for Cathay
Pacific, Dragonair, Air Hong Kong and four other airlines.
Fleet development
• At 31st December 2014, Cathay Pacific operated 147
aircraft, Dragonair operated 41 aircraft and Air Hong
Kong operated 13 aircraft. We had 79 new aircraft on
order for delivery up to 2024.
• In 2014, we took delivery of 16 new aircraft: nine Boeing
777-300ER aircraft, five Airbus A330-300 aircraft and
(for Dragonair) two Airbus A321-200 aircraft.
• Six Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft were retired in
2014. In 2013, we agreed to sell our six Boeing 747-400F
freighters back to The Boeing Company. One of them
was delivered in November 2014. Two of the remaining
freighters are parked and all five of them will have left the
fleet by the end of 2016.
• In 2015 we expect to take delivery of nine new aircraft.
Two of them were delivered in February 2015 and one of
them was delivered in March 2015. We plan to retire four
Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft in 2015. One of them
was retired in January 2015 and three were retired in
March 2015.
• In 2014 we decided to accelerate the retirement of our 11
Airbus A340-300 aircraft. Four of these aircraft, one of
which was retired in March 2015, will have been retired by
the end of 2015 and the remaining seven will have left the
fleet by the end of 2017.
Advances in technology
• Airborne trials of our eEnabled aircraft technology and
ground systems began in May 2014. In June 2014, we
started to evaluate the systems with the Hong Kong Civil
Aviation Department. The eEnabled technology will
facilitate improvements in working practices and reduce
costs. It will be installed in existing aircraft (except Boeing
747-400 and Airbus A340-300 passenger aircraft, which
are being retired) and in newly delivered aircraft.
• We introduced a new departure control system for
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair.
• We started to develop a new cargo booking system in
2014. It is expected to be in full operation in 2016.
• After a successful trial, we will start using mobile tablet
devices in our aircraft in 2015.
• We made improvements to the Cathay Pacific and
Dragonair websites in October 2014 and will improve
them further in 2015.
• We developed a new Asia Miles website and new mobile
apps for Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific Cargo
and Cathay Pacific Services Limited.
• An app developed for our cabin crew won the Silver
Business Solution award at the 2014 Hong Kong ICT
Awards and a Merit award at the HK Award for Industries
(Innovation and Creativity). Our IT service centre won the
Bronze medal award in the Inbound Contact Centre
category at the 2014 Hong Kong Call Centre Association
Award Ceremony.
Partnerships
• Brazil’s TAM became a full member of the oneworld
alliance, and US Airways joined as an affiliate member,
on 31st March 2014. SriLankan Airlines became a full
member of the oneworld alliance in May 2014, the
first airline from the Indian subcontinent to join a
global alliance.
• Cathay Pacific entered into codeshare arrangements
with Qatar Airways in March 2014. The arrangements
cover Qatar Airways flights between Doha and Hong
Kong, Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Geneva, Jeddah,
Madrid, Nairobi and Venice and Cathay Pacific flights
between Hong Kong and Doha, Adelaide, Auckland,
Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Nagoya, Osaka, Perth,
Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo. In December 2014, the
arrangements were extended to Qatar Airways flights
between Doha and Copenhagen, Istanbul, Oslo,
Stockholm, Vienna and Zagreb. In March 2015, the
arrangements were extended to Qatar Airways flights
between Doha and Muscat and Sao Paulo.