A pearl of the Orient.(CATHAY PACIFIC CELEBRATES 60 YEARS)(Company overview) From: Air Transport World | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Glab, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2006 Penton Media, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Look back into the history of any large company and odds are you will find some ironies lurking in its past. Cathay Pacific Airways, celebrating its 60th birthday this month, is no exception. Here's one: Although its name is virtually synonymous with Hong Kong, the two men who initially got it off the ground were from Texas and Australia. Here's another: What they really wanted to do was to start a trading company, not a passenger airline.

But it was aviation that brough...

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