Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (CPA), more widely known as Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet consisting of Airbus A321, Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 aircraft.
Olympic Catering had been sold a few months earlier. The airline’s head office was located in Athens. The airline’s main base was at Athens International Airport, “Eleftherios Venizelos”, with hubs at Thessaloniki International Airport, “Macedonia”, Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” and Rhodes International Airport, “Diagoras”.
It was equipped with secondhand Convair 440 and Douglas DC-6 piston-engine airliners. A Mackey International Air Commuter subsidiary operation was equipped with Beech 99 19-seat turboprop aircraft. In 1977, Mackey’s headquarters located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was the target of a bombing attributed to Cuban anti-Castro activity in the United States.