Cathay Dragon celebrates 10 years of flight operations from Bengaluru to Hong Kong

July 4, 2018: Cathay Dragon recently marked 10 years of operations between Bengaluru and Hong Kong. Since flights were launched in 2008, more than 800,000 passengers have travelled from Bengaluru and approximately 32,000 tonnes 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 Dragon 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 percent of the India cargo revenue. We are able to uplift approximately 15 to 20 tonnes 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.”

Meanwhile, Cathay Pacific’s regional sales and marketing manager – South Asia, Rajesh Menon says, “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”.