Cathay Dragon Celebrates 10 years of Passenger Flight Operations from Bengaluru to Hong Kong
The airline began operating flights from Bengaluru on 02 July 2008
Cathay Dragon celebrates 10 years of passenger flight
operations between Bengaluru and Hong Kong on 02 July 2018. Since flights were
launched in 2008, more than 800,000 passengers have travelled from Bengaluru
and approximately 32,000 tons of cargo have been carried. Cathay Dragon began daily flights in 2008 operating an Airbus
330-300 aircraft. The launch of flights to Bengaluru marked the first time for
Cathay Dragon to operate flights from India.
Cathay Pacific’s Regional Sales and Marketing Manager – South
Asia, Rajesh Menon says,” We have always been very confident of the potential
that Bengaluru holds, which is why we launched services in 2008 with daily
flights. To have completed 10 successful years of operations from Bengaluru is
indeed a great milestone and we are very proud. Karnataka’s GDP growth at 7% is
in line with the national average. From South India, the highest traffic to
countries like North America, Japan & Australia comes from Bengaluru. At Cathay
Dragon we are perfectly positioned to cater to this traffic with excellent
connections to these key destinations with our differentiated product and
service”.
On the cargo front, Cathay Dragon also carries cargo in the
belly of its passenger aircraft in addition to the dedicated Cathay Pacific
freighters that operate from Bengaluru. Cathay Pacific’s Regional Cargo Manager
– South Asia, Middle East and Africa, Anand Yedery says, “Bengaluru is an
important market for us, for both exports and imports and contributes to around
15% of the India cargo revenue. We are able to uplift approximately 15 to 20
tons of cargo per flight, in the belly of our Cathay Dragon aircraft. Belly
operations are extremely helpful as it offers us the opportunity to cater to a
wide range of products such as pharmaceuticals (active & passive),
garments, herbal products, auto parts, medical equipment to name a few. This
frees up space on our freighters to handle main deck shipments from Bengaluru
such as aircraft engines.”
About the Cathay Pacific Group
The Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Group offers
scheduled passenger and cargo services to over 200 destinations in Asia, North
America, Australia, Europe and Africa, using a fleet of close to 200 aircraft. There are three airlines in the Cathay Pacific
Group: Cathay Pacific, a premium international network airline; Cathay Dragon,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific which focuses on providing premium
services to destinations across Asia; and AHK Air Hong Kong, an all-cargo
carrier operating regional express freight services that Cathay Pacific is in
the process of making into a wholly owned subsidiary. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon currently operate 48 weekly departures
from 6 cities in India to Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific operates 10 flights a week
from Mumbai, 14 flights from Delhi, daily flights from Chennai and 4 weekly
flights from Hyderabad. Cathay Dragon operates daily flights from
Bengaluru and 6 weekly flights from Kolkata. Cathay Pacific Cargo operates from
six cities in India with 26 weekly freighters.
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