User:Charles Griffith

This brief mention here is to question the statement made on the Cathay Pacific Airlines page that Cathay Pacific inaugurated service to Osaka, Japan from Hong Kong during the 1960's. I was Hong Kong (Kai Tak) Assistant Station Manager for Civil Air Transport, Flag Carrier of the Republic of China based at Taipei Taiwan. R.O.C. during that period an do not remember that "CPA" as we called it then, was a competitor of ours to Osaka, or even that CPA actually flew to Osaka at that time. My own memories of CPA at Kai Tak were that as a non-I.A.T.A. member airline, that they were overly generous with excess baggage and seldom charged the usual fees, that their aircraft cabins were none to clean, and that they were fiercely undercutting the airfares of the I.A.T.A. Member Carriers whenever the could. In short, they did not have a good reputation.

They've apparently come a long, long way.