| stephen, please check your facts before stating it as if it is fact - cathay has always been been majority owned by swire pacific, since the day it was listed on the hk stock exchange. citic is a passive shareholder and has only invested in cx post listing. checkout cathay's website at www.cathaypacific.com to correct yourself. swire owns 46.82 % of cathay pacific and citic only holds 25.69 %. management is all from international / multinational backgrounds, none from china. the professionalism at cathay is not from china. citic doesn't run anything at cathay pacific, only as a passive investor. they have no input other than helping out cathay in getting china route allocations when and if it happens. so far cathay only flies to xiamen and beijing in china, the shanghai route has been discussed and on the table for the last 3 years and citic has done nothing much in aiding to get the route going. chairman and ceo of cathay pacific has been british or australian since the day it became a airline until the present hong kong ceo came into his post. he was previously from dragonair, another hk based airline that has a level of professionalism that the chinese airlines only tries to adopt but had difficulties. check around on the airfares between dragonair and the china based airlines... there is a very noticeable difference...... here's a complet list of the Senior Management at cathay pacific Chairman Christopher Pratt Deputy Chairman Henry Fan Chief Executive Philip Chen Chief Operating Officer Tony Tyler Finance Director Robert Atkinson Director Service Delivery Quince Chong Director Flight Operations Nick Rhodes Engineering Director Derek Cridland Director Sales & Marketing James Barrington Director Personnel William Chau Director Corporate Development Augustus Tang Director Information Management & e-Business Edward Nicol Director and General Manager Cargo Ron Mathison |
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