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Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
62014 in Review
Hub development
• The Cathay Pacific Group is committed to the long-term
development of Hong Kong International Airport as a
premier international hub for passenger and cargo
traffic. We continue to develop our networks and
frequencies in order to provide customers with more
choices and convenience.
• Cathay Pacific fully supports the building of a third
runway at Hong Kong International Airport. We welcomed
the issue of the environmental permit for the third
runway in 2014. We hope that discussions on funding
can be concluded quickly in order for this important
project to move ahead.
• Keeping our networks intact is a priority. However, we
continue to manage capacity in line with demand, making
cancellations for commercial reasons where necessary.
• In 2014, the passenger capacity of Cathay Pacific and
Dragonair increased by 5.9% compared to 2013,
reflecting the introduction of new routes and increased
frequencies on existing routes. Cathay Pacific’s capacity
grew by 5.8%. Dragonair’s capacity grew by 6.9%.
• In March 2014, Cathay Pacific introduced a daily service
to Doha. We introduced codeshare services with Qatar
Airways at the same time.
• We reorganised our network in the Middle East in 2014.
We stopped flights to Abu Dhabi and Jeddah but
improved our schedules on other Middle Eastern routes.
• We reorganised certain services to Australia. We now
operate four-times-weekly direct flights to Adelaide,
three-times-daily direct flights to Melbourne and a daily
direct flight to Brisbane. There is also a tagged flight
between Brisbane and Cairns, four times a week.
• We began using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on one of our
Sydney flights in December 2014, so adding capacity on
the route. We will add another Boeing 777-300ER aircraft
to the route in October 2015.
• A sixth daily frequency to Seoul was changed from a
seasonal to a permanent flight in March 2014. An
additional daily flight was added in November 2014,
making a total of 49 flights per week.
• A daily flight was added to Osaka in February 2014, with
additional flights being added from September 2014. We
operated additional flights to Sapporo in July, August and
December 2014 in order to meet seasonal demand.
• We reduced capacity on the Bangkok route as political
unrest in Thailand affected demand but gradually
restored it towards the end of the year. Demand on the
Chiang Mai and Phuket routes was not affected by
political unrest. We added five flights a week to Manila in
October 2014 and three flights a week to Cebu in
December 2014.
• We removed the Bangkok tag on one of our two daily
flights to Delhi, making all flights to Delhi non-stop.
• We removed the Singapore tag on our Colombo service.
We now operate four direct flights per week to Colombo
and three tagged flights per week through Bangkok.
• We stopped flying to Karachi in June 2014.
• We introduced a daily service to Newark in March 2014.
The Los Angeles service was increased to four-times-
daily in June 2014. We will introduce a four-times-weekly
service to Boston in May 2015 and will increase our San
Francisco service to 17 flights per week in June 2015.
• We introduced a four-times-weekly service to
Manchester in December 2014. We will introduce a daily
service to Zurich in March 2015 and a four-times-weekly
service to Dusseldorf in September 2015. Our capacity
on European routes decreased because we used smaller
(Boeing 777-300ER) aircraft.
• Cathay Pacific stopped and Dragonair started flying to
Penang in March 2014. The schedule and frequency (10
flights per week) remain the same.
• Dragonair introduced a twice-weekly service to
Denpasar-Bali in April 2014.
• Dragonair will introduce a daily service to Haneda in
Tokyo in March 2015. At the same time it will cease
operating to Manila.
• Dragonair’s Da Nang service became daily from March
2014. Its service to Siem Reap is four-times-weekly,
except in winter, when it is daily. Extra Dragonair flights to
Beijing, Kaohsiung and Phuket were introduced. The
frequency on Dragonair’s Yangon route became daily
from September 2014.
• Cathay Pacific tagged Mexico City onto its Guadalajara
cargo service in March 2014 and increased this service
to five flights per week in October 2014. A twice-weekly
cargo service to Columbus in the United States was
introduced in March 2014, becoming three flights per