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TEXT STOP - VANCOUVER!
ATHAY Pacific plan to
launch
C Kong to next bay.
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non-stop service from Seattle may be started soon after the Vancouver service gets going.
"The flight back may call at Tokyo," said the airline's general manager Europe, Rowland Cobbold, "but this is still being assessed and has yet to be finalised."
Why Vancouver? At present only CP Air operate such a service and the Hong Kong-based airline believes there's room for another carrier. Besides, there are strong connections between the colony and the substan- tial Chinese community in the Canadian city.
"We looked at the States' west coast," explained Mr Cobbold, "but decided there was an excess of capacity," although he added that a call at
Cathay Pacific is the major regional scheduled passenger and cargo airline in the Far East, serving all the area's important cities with a fleet of Boeing 747, Super TriStar and Boeing 707-320 jet aircraft.
The airline annually carries over 3.1mn passengers and 86mn kgs of cargo and substantial quantities of mail.
The 25-city network covering 15 countries ranges from Tokyo and Seoul in the north to Perth and Sydney in the south, and westwards to Bahrain, Dubai and London.
As Hong Kong's own airline, Cathay is the colony's flag carrier but unlike most national carriers isn't state-subsidised.
London
Bahrain
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Bahrain
Abu Dhabi'
Dubar
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Bombay
Bangkok
Penang
Kuala Lumpur"
Singapore
Jakarta
Seoul
Osaka Tokyo
Fukuoka
Taipei
Manila
Kota Kinabalu
Brunéi
Perth
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Port Moresby
Melboume
Brisbane
Sydney
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