William Charles Goddard Knowles, CBE, MA, LLD, JP was a British businessman in Hong Kong. He was general manager of the Butterfield and Swire, chairman of the Cathay Pacific Airways, member of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.
W. C. G. Knowles
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (CPA), more widely known as Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and its subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to over 190 destinations and more than 60 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet consisting of Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 aircraft. Cathay Cargo operates two models of Boeing 747. Defunct wholly-owned subsidiary airline Cathay Dragon, which ceased operations in 2020, operated to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Cargo, together with Cathay Dragon, transported nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail.
Cathay City, the corporate headquarters of Cathay Pacific.
A Douglas DC-3 named Betsy, Cathay Pacific's first aircraft, in the Hong Kong Science Museum
Niki, a DC-3 painted to imitate the appearance of the carrier's second aircraft, outside Cathay City
A Cathay Pacific Convair 880, operating from 1964 until 1974.
