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Summary of Cathay Pacific…

Cathay Pacific 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 its subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 190 destinations and more than 60 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures.

Cathay Pacific operates a fleet consisting of Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 aircraft. Cathay Cargo operates two models of Boeing 747. Defunct wholly-owned subsidiary airline Cathay Dragon, which ceased operations in 2020, operated to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Cargo (previously Cathay Pacific Cargo), together with Cathay Dragon, transported nearly 27 million passengers and more than 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail.

Cathay Pacific was founded on 24 September 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell. The airline celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016. As of March 2024, its major shareholders are Swire Pacific with a 45% stake, Air China with 30% and Qatar Airways with 9.9%.

Cathay Pacific is one of the founding members of Oneworld. The airline is ranked as a 5-star airline and has been ranked as the world's best airline four times by Skytrax. In 2018, it was the 19th-largest airline group in the world ranked by traffic. As of 2024, it is ranked as the fifth best airline in the world.

Aircraft in real life…

B-HPB was the first of 15 currently operating A321neos to be delivered to Cathay Pacific. It is actually the oldest A321neo in the Cathay fleet.

The addition of the A321neo’s in the CPA fleet was first made by Cathay Dragon (the now defunct subsidiary of Cathay Pacific), although they never got theirs as they merged with their own parent company (Cathay Pacific).

This aircraft was built on the 4th of November 2020, has approximately 4.0 years of service (as of the day of publishing), and was tested in Hamburg’s Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (XFW/EDHI) with test registration as D-AVYR.

The aircraft had currently been (or was supposed to be) in service with:
(Note, any in italics shows the order wasn’t taken up by the original airline, but instead it’s parents company.)
- Cathay Dragon, was supposed to operate the aircraft as B-HPB.
- Cathay Pacific, in November 14th 2020, as B-HPB

B-HPB, taxiing at Hong Kong’s Chep Lap Kok Airport (HKG / VHHH)

B-HPB, taxiing to the runway at Nanjing Lukou Int’l (NKG / ZSNJ).

B-HPB, taking off from Taipei Taoyuan Int’l (TPE / RCTP).

B-HPB (D-AVYR in this pic), as seen with the Cathay Dragon a livery in Hamburg’s Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder (XFW/EDHI).

Other Information…

This is my first build where I actually use smoothers!
Game reporting name: “Airbus A321-200neo - Cathay Pacific”

That’s all! Wán dé kaixin!

Have fun! in simplified Chinese.