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 ~ 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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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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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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There are 7 different species of salmon that can be found in the Pacific Ocean‚ each species has a unique appearance and has different habitats but they share many characteristics. Salmon are also a very unique species‚ they are anadromous‚ meaning that their eggs are laid and hatch in freshwater‚ and their youth spend some of their early lives there in freshwater before swimming to the ocean to grow and mature. Pacific salmon spawn only once and dies within days of digging their nest and mating
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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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Zuhairi bin Mazlan Trans-Pacific Partnership Hello and good evening to everyone‚my name is Mohd Zuhairi b Mazlan and I’m second year of Ukm’s student.i’m from Malaysia and it’s a great pleasure to share with all of you about the Trans Pacific Partnership and what the significance of it for Malaysia The Trans-Pacific Partnership‚ also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement or TPP agreement is a multilateral free
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cette zone pacifique‚ dès origines jusqu’à la 2ème Guerre Mondiale. Pacific region : APEC‚ Asia‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Aborigines‚ surf‚ beaches‚ kangaroos‚ Islands‚ Hawaii (-> Pearl Harbor)‚ biggest ocean in the world. Pacific (zone‚ area) ocean‚ Asia pacific‚ pacific rim countries. Origin of the name ‘Pacific’: 1521 Magellan coined the word‚ he thought the ocean was calm that came as a mistake. Ancient maps: Pacific Ocean/ south sea Bougainville‚ la Perouse‚ James Cook: famous explorers
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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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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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