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    Cathay Pacific Airlines

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    Cathay Pacific Airlines Cathay Pacific has been serving and growing with Hong Kong for 60 years. Being as the world’s largest international cargo airline and the world’s busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic‚ Cathay Pacific is one of the seven airlines to be ranked as a 5-star airline by Skytrax in 2009. Affected by the unstable global situation of political‚ economic and cultural‚ each single change of general environment may cause significant influence of airline industry. Therefore‚ to

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    Scm at Cathay Pacific

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    Umurbek Osorkhan 2EC12056R QBS 10th 5 November 2012 1 Company Overview Cathay Pacific Airways is an airline company founded on September 24th‚ 1946 by Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow. Starting with a very limited schedule service‚ the company grew larger through multiple product innovations‚ technological investments such as the computerized reservation system and successful acquisitions. In 1986‚ Cathay Pacific went public and further expanded in Europe‚ North America‚ and China. The company

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    Cebu Pacific History

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    re-certification of its aircraft.[4] It initially started with 24 domestic flights daily among Metro Manila‚ Metro Cebu and Metro Davao. By the end of 2001‚ its operations had grown to about 80 daily flights to 18 domestic destinations. In the 2000s‚ Cebu Pacific was granted rights to operate international flights to the region‚ including Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Singapore‚ Thailand‚ South Korea‚ Hong Kong‚ and Guam. International flights were launched on November 22‚ 2001‚ with a twice-daily service to Hong Kong

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    Cebu Pacific Paper

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    Case Context Cebu Pacific Air owned by the Gokongwei family and established in 1988‚ is the provider of most domestic flights in the Philippines. In 2000‚ Cebu Pacific Air was able to go international and expanded operations to Asia-Pacific countries. It owns 45% of the market share‚ and is among the top 5 in growth in terms of passengers carried and served. The airline company is known for its promo fares‚ where one can save around 40% to 50%‚ if flights are booked early. For the longest time‚ Philippine

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    History of Cathay Pacific (http://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en_INTL/aboutus/cxbackground/history) 1.1 The early years Cathay Pacific Airways was found on 24 September in 1946. American Roy C Farrell and Australian Sydney H de Kantzow are the founders. As a matter of fact‚ the airways based in Shanghai in 1940‚ but the two men moved to Hong Kong and set up the airline eventually. The two men put up HK$1 to register the airline. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Pacific) 1.2 Company

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    Cathay Pacific Airlines

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    CATHAY PACIFIC ~ INTRODUCTION Since its establishment in 1946‚ Cathay Pacific has been a profitable airline company‚ which experienced periodical growth. In 1998 however‚ the airline experienced a loss of US $70 million‚ a stark contrast from earning $218 million in profits in the previous year. For Cathay Pacific‚ this was the first loss experienced by the air carrier since 1963�. Cathay Pacific ’s economic hardship was mainly the result of a financial crisis‚ which affected the Asia-Pacific region

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    Application file created for: Maram Abed Dear Maram‚ Thanks again for applying to University of the Pacific. Here’s a quick checklist of things you can do now to receive your admission and scholarship decisions faster … STEP 1: S  ave this file to your desktop and print a copy for your records. This packet contains this checklist‚ the Official Document Request and your submitted application. Note: Please do not mail in your printed application receipt. STEP 2: Pay your $35 application fee. We

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    Swire Pacific Evaluation

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    Swire Pacific (SEHK: 0019) 29 August 2012‚ Keiann Yeung Business Description Swire Pacific is a Hong Kong-based conglomerate with key operations in property and aviation. Other divisions include marine services‚ beverages‚ trading and industrials. Property accounts for more than 60% of its Enterprise Value and operating profit. Other key holdings include 44% of Cathay Pacific. The UK-based founding family John Swire & Sons owns 42% economic interest and 58% voting rights in the company.

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    Cathay Pacific Analysis

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    investments Current assets Stock Trade and other receivables Liquid funds Year 2008 rank No.1 in this index. And asset in 2009 is less than that in 2007‚ annual report adress that during the depression‚ Cathay Pacific tried to kept its profit by cutting expenditure and selling assets. We cannot judge the performance through a sole number. Fewer assets means less capacity or smaller scale‚ however‚ fewer assets also results in less cost and efficient operating.

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    Danger of Pacific Ocean

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    Why is the Pacific Ocean unsafe? In 2011‚ Japan suffered a major travesty due to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake‚ and tsunami that followed soon after. However‚ during that earthquake and tsunami‚ a nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daichii was hit‚ and exposed to the community. Being exposed to a nuclear power plant is extremely harmful because of the symptoms that may occur from it‚ due to radiation. According to the 2013 edition of the Encyclopedia‚ radiation is a‚ “flow of atomic and subatomic

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