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Cathay Pacific Airways Limited Interim Report 20138
2013 Interim Review
• We continue to introduce our mobile boarding
pass service for passengers. The service became
available in four more airports in the first half
of 2013, making a total of 24airports in which it
isavailable.
PARTNERSHIPS
• Qatar Airways is expected to join the oneworld
alliance by November 2013.
• SriLankan Airlines is expected to join oneworld
in the first half of 2014. Cathay Pacific is
sponsoring the carrier’s entry into the alliance.
• TAM, TAM Mercosur and LAN Colombia are
expected to join oneworld as affiliate members
after the completion of their merger with LAN
(to form the LATAM Airlines Group).
• American Airlines is expected to merge with US
Airways (subject to regulatory approval) by the
third quarter of 2013. US Airways will then join
oneworld as an affiliate member.
• Cathay Pacific, Dragonair and S7 Airlines
entered into a codeshare arrangement that
covers S7 flights between Hong Kong and
Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Saint Petersburg
via Moscow, and Cathay Pacific flights between
Hong Kong and Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City,
Moscow and Singapore. The codeshare also
covers Dragonair flights between Hong Kong
and Chiang Mai and Hanoi.
• Cathay Pacific, Dragonair and Hunnu Air,
formerly Mongolian Airlines, introduced
interline arrangements in February 2013.
• In March, British Airways added its code on
Cathay Pacific flights to Australia.
• In March, Cathay Pacific added its code on
Dragonair flights to Da Nang.
ENVIRONMENT
• Cathay Pacific continues to engage with
regulators and groups involved in shaping
aviation policy in relation to climate change.
We work with the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) and International Air
Transport Association (IATA) to increase
awareness of climate change and to develop
appropriate solutions for the aviation industry.
• The fifth Greener Skies Aviation and
Environment Conference was held in Hong
Kong in February, with Cathay Pacific as one of
the principal sponsors.
• Cathay Pacific supports market-based
measures as an interim solution to reduce
aviation emissions. It does not support the
imposition of the European Union’s Emissions
Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on airlines based
outside Europe. Hence, we welcomed the
deferment of the start of EU ETS for a year, to
November2013.
• In compliance with EU ETS, our emissions
data for 2012 were externally verified and our
emissions report for 2012 was submitted to the
UK Environment Agency at the end of March.
• Cathay Pacific continued to be involved with
IATA’s Climate Change Task Force in its efforts
to develop a commitment to carbon neutral
growth by 2020, and to develop proposals
for a fair and equitable global agreement on
emissions under ICAO’s leadership.
• We supported the Hong Kong SAR
Government’s “Food Wise” campaign by
signing the Food Wise Charter in May. This
commits signatories to reduce food waste.
• Cathay Pacific signed the Carbon Price
Communiqué of the Prince of Wales’s Corporate
Leaders Group on Climate Change.