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Шаблон:Infobox building Шаблон:Chinese Cathay Pacific City (Шаблон:Zh), often referred as Cathay City, is the headquarters of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's flag-carrying airline. It is located at Hong Kong International Airport, on the south side.

History

The airline built Cathay Pacific City so that all central employees could work in one location.[1]

The facility was initially to cost $3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$452.8 million as of 1995). The plans called for about Шаблон:Convert of office space on Шаблон:Convert of land. In 1995 the Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) agreed to lease the site to the airline.[2]

The headquarters opened in 1998.[3] The topping out ceremony was held on 17 February 1998.[4] Cathay Pacific City was scheduled to be built in increments between April and September 1998.[5] It was scheduled to open in July, when Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok was to open. It was scheduled to have over 3,000 employees. The airline's move to the centre was scheduled to begin in June. On 6 July, operational departments were scheduled to be ready for the airport. In the second half of 1998 the rest of the airline was scheduled to move in.[4] Previously the airline's headquarters were at Swire House, a building in Central named after the airline's parent company.[6] The architects were Llewelyn-Davies, who began design work in May 1995.[7] Simon Jackson and Associates outfitted the hotel interiors.[8] Cathay Pacific City had a cost of 4.9 billion Hong Kong dollars.[1]

Facility

Cathay Pacific City is located on Шаблон:Convert of reclaimed land,[1] located at the southeast corner of the platform of Hong Kong International Airport.[8] Cathay Pacific City has Шаблон:Convert of space and is one of the largest corporate head office facilities in Asia.[1]

Cathay Pacific City includes three 10-storey office buildings, a 23-storey staff hotel, HSBC Cathay City branch,[9] a flight training centre with a safety training school,[4] a workshop and storage building, a leisure centre,[8] and an airline stores building.[10] The centre has a Шаблон:Convert steel pedestrian bridge.[11]

The head office of Air Hong Kong, as of 2004, is located on the fourth floor of the South Tower of Cathay Pacific City.[12] In February 2012, FlightSafety International and Gulfstream Aerospace, in a venture with Cathay Pacific, opened a learning centre for pilots of Gulfstream 450 and Gulfstream 550 aircraft at Cathay Pacific City. The centre is not marked with the FlightSafety name.[13]

The headquarters includes the Cathay Pacific Experience museum, which covers Шаблон:Convert. The main gallery of the museum chronicles the airline's early history. The second gallery focuses on the airline's development. The third gallery explains the development into the contemporary airline.[14] The Headland Hotel, a facility exclusively for Cathay Pacific and associated company employees, is located adjacent to Cathay Pacific City.[15]

To access Cathay Pacific City employees are required to show electronic passes.[16]

Public transport

From Hong Kong city centre via MTR to:

  • Tung Chung - then take the Long Win Bus route S64 from Tung Chung station. The second stop is Cathay Pacific City.
  • Airport - via Airport Express (from Hong Kong, Kowloon or Tsing Yi stations) - when reaching the airport, or if already at the airport: Take the HAS crew shuttle to Cathay Pacific City from the Terminal 1 Ground Transportation Centre.

See also

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Notes

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References

External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 "Working Environment." (Archive) Cathay Pacific. Retrieved on 16 May 2013. Versions in Traditional Chinese (Archive)/Simplified Chinese (Archive)
  2. Шаблон:Cite web
  3. Шаблон:Cite press release
  4. 4,0 4,1 4,2 "CATHAY PACIFIC Cathay Pacific City topped out at CLK" M2 Presswire. 17 February 1998. Retrieved on 16 May 2013. Available at LexisNexis.
  5. Walker, Karen. "Hangover cure." Airline Business at Flight International. 1 December 1997. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  6. Шаблон:Cite web "Head Office: Swire House, 9 Connaught Road, C, Hong Kong"
  7. Шаблон:Cite news
  8. 8,0 8,1 8,2 Cairns, Start page 62. "Headquarters of Cathay Pacific Airways at Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong will include a 10-storey office building, a leisure centre, a staff hotel, and a workshop and storage building. Architects: Llewelyn-Davies. Hotel interiors: Simon Jackson and Associates."
  9. Шаблон:Cite web
  10. Tam, Start Page 13. "10-story office building with three towers, a staff hotel, a flight training center, and an airline stores building."
  11. Careem, Zanita. "The "Mecca" of women shoppers." (Archive) The Island. 7 September 2003. Retrieved on 16 May 2013. "The Cathay Pacific City the global headquarters of the Hong Kong flagship, airline is situated in a centralised location, An integral part of Cathay Pacific City is a pedestrian bridge designed in steel, with a cantilevered glass canopy and used an arch structure to achieve its 40-metre span."
  12. "Directory: World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 65. "AIR HONG KONG [LD1 (AHK) 4F South Tower; Cathay Pacific City, 8 Scenic Road, Hong Kong International Airport, Lantau, Hong Kong (SAR), China"
  13. Moll, Nigel. "FlightSafety Opens New Gulfstream Learning Center in Hong Kong." (Archive) Aviation International News. AIN Publications. 26 March 2012. Retrieved on 16 May 2013.
  14. Шаблон:Cite book
  15. Шаблон:Cite web
  16. "Former flight attendant sells uniform on the net." Sydney Morning Herald. 24 September 2003. Retrieved on 16 May 2013. "A uniform is only part of the way of identifying Cathay staff. It would not enable you to access any restricted area. You need an electronic pass to get into Cathay Pacific City (the airlines secure staff area at Chek Lap Kok airport). Passes are deactivated as soon as staff leave the company."