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Hub development
• We launched a thrice-weekly service to Shenyang
via Dalian in April.
• Dragonair operates passenger services to 30
destinations in Asia, including 21 in Mainland China.
Dragonair also provided freighter services to 10
destinations covering cities in Asia, Europe, Middle
East and the United States in 2006.
• We relaunched our scheduled service to Phuket
in Thailand in December and also launched a
thrice-weekly service to Busan in South Korea in
January 2007.
• We increased our freighter services to Shanghai
to 17 a week from 1st January 2007 and withdrew
services to Amsterdam, Dubai, Frankfurt and
Manchester from 1st February 2007.
• Our summer schedule saw increased frequencies
to 10 Mainland China destinations and three
regional cities.
• The winter schedule saw a reduction in the
minimum connecting time between Dragonair
and Cathay Pacific flights, from 60 minutes to 50
minutes. As a result, 451 new connections became
available to international travellers.
• In our winter 2006 schedule we operated one
additional weekly passenger flight to Tokyo,
resulting in a daily service to the Japanese capital.
The growing fleet
• We took delivery of three wide-bodied Airbus A330-
300 aircraft in 2006 – in January, April and October.
• By the end of 2006, our freighter fleet grew to five
with the addition of a Boeing 747-400BCF aircraft.
• All four aircraft wet leased to Air China will be
returned by 2008, two Airbus A330s, one Airbus
A320 in 2007 and one Airbus A330 in 2008.
Pioneer in technology
• In March we introduced e-ticketing for individual
passengers on five routes from and to Hong Kong:
Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Shanghai and Taipei.
• We selected Ezycargo, Asia’s leading air-cargo
booking portal, to provide an online option that
enables forwarders to better manage their shipments.
• Our website was revamped to provide additional
user functions and a more contemporary look.
Partnerships
• We started operating codeshare services with
Cathay Pacific to Beijing, Kota Kinabalu, Phuket,
Shanghai, Tokyo and Xiamen in December. The
codeshare also applies on our Busan route, which
was launched in January 2007.
• We announced our intention to become an affiliate
member of oneworld in 2007.
AIR HONG KONG
• AHK took delivery of two new Airbus A300-600F
freighters in May and June 2006, taking its fleet
size to eight.
• The carrier’s seventh freighter replaced the wet
lease operation to Bangkok and Penang. The eighth
freighter is deployed on the Nagoya route, which
was launched as an AHK destination in October.
• We now serve eight Asian cities: Bangkok, Nagoya,
Osaka, Penang, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo.
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Cathay Pacific Airways Limited Annual Report 2006
2006 in Review