#Cathay Pacific

[supplyside]

landing at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong

#Kai Tak #Hong Kong #China #aerospace #Boeing #747 #Cathay Pacific

[brianfrench1995]

Cathay Pacific Airways Lockheed TriStar Postcard 


@postcardtimemachine

#ephemera #travel #plane #airplane #airplanes #planes #aviation #flying #avgeek #postcard #cathay pacific #l1011 #l 1011 #tristar

[runwayrunway]

No. 27 - Airline Alliances (oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance)

@imjustanobsessedjew asked me to follow up on my thoughts on airline alliance liveries, so I'm here to do that.

I struggle to find a good way to describe airline alliances. Examples I've pondered over and ultimately rejected on some or other technicality include fraternities, record labels, and TikToker content houses. But maybe it doesn't matter. I'm not here to talk about how they function broadly. It's not important to this post that you can use American Airlines miles to get tickets on flights operated by British Airways.

Generally, member airlines will have a symbol from their alliance painted on their planes. I showed an example in my SAS post of the Star Alliance logo on an airframe (center), but here are examples for the other two: an Aeroflot plane wearing the SkyTeam symbol (left) and an Iberia plane with a very, very small oneworld logo (right).

But sometimes this isn't enough for them. The three major airline alliances have a habit of painting planes in special alliance liveries. Because who cares if you're flying on Delta, XiamenAir, Kenya Airways, or TAROM - what's important is that they're part of SkyTeam.

I sort of just don't understand the purpose. I don't think anyone is going to see a Star Alliance livery and think "wow, I am reminded to specifically spend my money with these 26 otherwise completely unrelated airlines!" because that's...that's just really silly. While airline alliances can make it a lot easier to use frequent flier miles and neatly book multi-leg trips on the passenger's end, I've always been under the impression that these must do more for the airlines than they do for the end consumer, because otherwise they probably wouldn't exist. I'm not sure what the need is to advertise them to someone who has no say in their existence and probably picks their flights based on what Google tells them is cheapest anyway. Nobody has, like, brand loyalty to alliances, and there's no reason they should, since their member airlines will offer wildly different qualities of service and cover entirely different regions of the world.

So why the special liveries? Is it a hazing ritual? I can't really imagine what benefit they might offer over just putting your symbol somewhere else on the plane. Some kid sitting in the window seat of a plane that's delayed by an hour at a massive airport isn't even going to notice or care about a SkyTeam livery, and I honestly really should have put airline alliances on the questionnaire in some form because I'm not sure how many people know or care that they exist. I don't understand the point, and the only thing I do understand, really, is that I hate it when airlines which have gone through the trouble of designing their own livery, even if that livery is terrible, would then paint a plane in a way which makes it interchangeable with everything else on the tarmac. But they're fully developed (mostly) liveries, so they're the sort of thing I'm here to talk about. Without further ado: SkyTeam, oneworld, and Star Alliance.

oneworld goes first because it's a bit different from the others. (Yes, the correct way to write it, as seen in all company literature, is with the first half bolded.) oneworld was founded in February of 1999 and is the third-largest of the major alliances.

Currently, there are thirteen active oneworld members, shown above, plus their regional subsidiaries; S7 Airlines is currently suspended, as is the case for all Russia-based airlines in major alliances, and Oman Air will be joining the alliance by the end of 2024. Fiji Airways is also nominally involved as a 'connect partner', which as far as I can tell means situational benefits from the alliance when working with its member airlines. It feels like they're scrambling for a foothold a little despite having some absolute powerhouses among their ranks because they keep getting their members bought out by other alliances and/or merged into each other. I think I prefer it that way.

To begin with, the logo is atrocious. Blue-to-white airhrush gradient circle with big yucky sans serif lettering, half of which is bold and half of which is standard width, which leaves you unable to tell which half you hate more. This logo is really painfully early '00s website and not in the cute nostalgic way. It's not stylized in a way that provokes nostalgia, it's just so inept that it could fit in during the era where web design wasn't really a field that had been fully invented yet.

But as a livery, it's sort of hard to review. A oneworld paint job changes less than the average logojet.

I'm not entirely sure if I can even consider this a special livery. It's just an extra line of text. Ugly text, sure, but I wouldn't call it a different design. This doesn't change the fact that you can immediately recognize these as an S7 plane and a Cathay Pacific plane because none of their livery is fundamentally changed.

There's just a limited amount I can say about what's a glorified sticker. RAM gets to keep its nice little swirlies, all is right with the world, they get to keep the normal text on their other planes, this is not a big deal. Maybe they keep losing members because they can't tell them apart from other planes in the airport without a big, all-encompassing custom livery to make a select few unlucky planes airline-ambiguous. oneworld, more like...dumbworld.

Moving on in alphabetical order, SkyTeam is the second largest of the alliances.

SkyTeam has 20 members: the above pictured, plus Aeroflot, which is temporarily suspended for the aforementioned Russian reasons. It also has its own elaborate system of 'associates' and 'affiliates', and a dedicated cargo alliance, SkyTeam Cargo.

I actually enjoy the SkyTeam logo. The wordmark is just a yucky thin monospace sans serif, but they have that nice flourishy design that's aesthetically pleasing and easy to recognize, and I can't knock that.

Still, this is where we get into proper airline alliance liveries. You have to zoom in pretty close to tell that the above planes are TAROM on the right and Korean Air on the left. I didn't have to specify, when covering oneworld, that the logo was framed by Iberia and Royal Air Maroc, because their branding was left intact. This is not so for SkyTeam, which takes over its hosts in full, creating SkyTeam planes with a tiny mark denoting their actual airline instead of the other way around.

This could be a lot worse. It's got recognizable logos, legible text, and I think most crucially the main fuselage body is painted a mid-light grey. The opposite of something like the SAS belly stripes, which are cheapened by the proliferation of Eurowhite, SkyTeam sort of gets a free boost from the fact that their non-white fuselage is a rarity. I do really like the relatively lowered contrast between the main body and the logo, because this shade of blue is usually paired with stark white. The SkyTeam curlicue is big and visible on the fuselage. I would have made it bigger, but it's not terrible as is. The airline's logo is placed below the window line while SkyTeam's wordmark is above it, hypothetically giving them equal weight (though in reality I think people obviously read SkyTeam's first).

It certainly has Detached Tail Syndrome, but for my tastes the lower contrast and placement of the curlicue make it far more tolerable. Northing here is ostentatious or overdesigned, and while it falls short of true minimal elegance I truly can't say it's ugly and I don't think it's lazy, either. This is one of the few times the detached tail does feel at least slightly deliberate, given the non-blankness of the rest of the fuselage. The bits feel a bit separate sometimes, but it's nowhere near as bad as that effect can get.

I'm going to give SkyTeam a B-.

I sincerely, earnestly, emphatically do not dislike the way the SkyTeam livery looks. But I still think it should not exist. Airlines should wear their own liveries. If you have 20 airlines, you should have 20 distinct fleets. I would rather have a bunch of mediocre or even bad liveries than one decent livery which doesn't belong to anyone at all.

Regardless, I do have to leave off on a fitting note. SkyTeam...more like WhyTeam.

Star Alliance is the largest of the three alliances, with 26 member airlines.

In my SAS post, I introduced the Star Alliance Test, a metric by which I judge the the absolute worst designs which end up on this blog. The test consists of one question: would I prefer that all instances of this livery be replaced with a Star Alliance paint job? As I mentioned there, I chose Star Alliance because, like SkyTeam, it entirely overwrites the original airline's livery. Not only do I like it less than SkyTeam, it is also more prolific, with an entire six more airlines with planes begging to be ruined.

It is inoffensive nearly to the degree that it becomes offensive again. Big, ugly sans serif wordmark, though it at least has the decency to occupy the majority of the fuselage to prevent it from just being a white expanse. Detached tail. Teeny tiny airline logo that you have to squint to see.

Star Alliance liveries are both functionally identical to blank planes and dangerously close to actually being them. But they have just enough design that to me they avoid being nothing and graduate to minimalist. I think it's the large text and the fact that the actual logo is actually decently designed, but it doesn't evoke the sheer dread in me that something like Lufthansa does. It's not uninterrupted, unbalanced white, it's just...really, really boring.

I...honestly think it's a C-.

Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines both have a variant livery, all black and all white respectively. I would rate them the same, I think. Maybe Singapore's is a little more boring while also feeling like more of a statement, while Air New Zealand's makes me very happy by being a primarily black plane (I am one of the few Airplane People who is also a consummate goth) but suffers from thin white-on-black text being fairly eyestrainy. In general, the Star Alliance wordmark is somewhat difficult to read. These two belong with the rest of the liveries, even though I think I ultimately like Singapore's a bit less than the default and Air New Zealand's a bit more.

While not a vehement condemnation, C- is not exactly a shining endorsement. When I devised my scale I did envision it as something of a normal distribution. Most liveries are going to be somewhere in the C range. This is cromulent. This is satisfactory. This does not make me angry.

It just makes me sad, thinking about all these airplanes wearing identical liveries. Sure, Copa and United already match, but this is an extremely varied set. It ranges from the painfully boring to the somewhat ugly to the actively nice, and all of them get replaced with identical stock liveries...an inter-fleet Scar Alliance.

While I rate these as competent liveries in terms of their appearance, I cannot pretend I do not hate everything they stand for. In my opinion, to paint your airplanes in a livery which makes it impossible to tell that the planes flanking the logo fly for Croatia Airlines and Continental respectively without zooming all the way in is the very definition of failure.

#tarmac fashion week #grade: b- #grade: c- #era: 2000s #era: 2010s #era: 2020s #royal air maroc #iberia #air new zealand #singapore airlines #s7 airlines #non-airline liveries #cathay pacific #compilations #requests #I only tagged the airlines that appear in liveries that are noticeably theirs

[judyscathay]

8th January, 2023.

Welcome to my blog! During my field placement, I will be posting about my experience as a Customer Service Ambassador for Cathay Pacific!

Today was the day we had Orientation and was briefed about what we had to do for our position. It was a new experience for me and though there was many information, I was eager to learn about everything!

Everyone else there was very nice and welcoming and I couldn't wait to work along side them!

#cathay pacific

[aj-torres]

-- December 11, 2023 --

My experience in the airline begins with Cathay Pacific Airways! I'm so excited to be part of this team, thank you for the opportunity!

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#aviation #cathay pacific

[mikmakersss]

Orientation Day!

January 08, 2024!

Today is our orientation day with Cathay Pacific.

We talked about our responsibilities as a Customer Service Ambassador. They also showed us on how to use the kiosk and how can we put the bag tags in to the luggages. They also gave us a teddy bear and our name tags this day. This day was full of excitement because I was able to make friends with other students who is also having their coop.

I'm excited to start this journey as a Customer Service Ambassador with Cathay Pacific. :)

#Customer Service Ambassador #Cathay Pacific #Orientation Day

[windywendy21]

Hello everyone~! The weather is really chilly these days, but I hope you're all keeping warm. It's been a while since I posted on Tumblr, and here I am! Currently, I'm in my last semester at Seneca College, thriving in my studies.

Our program is in Flight Services Operation, and the exciting part is that we get internship opportunities in the 4th semester. Right now, I'm interning at Cathay Pacific airline and I thought I'd share a bit about this experience. I hope many of you drop by!

Stay warm until my next post! à bientôt! (See you again soon!) 🌟✈️

#internship #cathay pacific #flight attendant

[seniouesbabes]

Lily Maymac 🌸🍒💋🌸 Hi New York

Was hoping for a white Christmas ❄️

#lilymaymac #beautiful #sexy #babes #models #instagram models #fashion #selfie #december 2023 #america #new york #manhattan #Saturday 23 #no snow #vacation #window view #cathay pacific

[tinazb]

Completing career placement over the kiosk as a customer service representative at YYZ, terminal#3 with Cathay Pacific Airways has provided a fantastic experience and feeling.

Technically, it is my second week working as a customer service representative at Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is an excellent opportunity to grow my knowledge and experience in the workplace with such a successful and popular airline as Cathay Pacific.

There are many passengers every day who are looking for their boarding passes and bag tags by the kiosk and our job is to handle with them.

Let’s have an in-depth look at various classes of tickets in CX airline. It breaks down into by Economy, which has three subsequences;

light, essential, flexi

Premium Economy,

Business class

And it’s good to know that Cathay Pacific Airways is a Part of One world alliance with memberships like Emaraled, diomond, gold, silver, Ruby.

According to transport Canada and based on the Cathay Pacific policy and regulation each passenger in Economy light class is allowed to have one piece of checked bag no more than 23 Kilograms and also can have one hand bag and one cabin bag no exceeding than 7 kilograms in total. However, all passengers in premium economy and essential and flexi economy + business class can carry 2 checked bags and 2 pieces of cabin bags with the weight limit of 15 kilograms.

Here is my scenarios with two passengers who were traveling to Hong Kong while one of them had a luggage with broken handles at two sides and I had an issue to place the tag on his bag which has only one strap around it that looks firm enough to be tagged on. Anyway, I tagged it and sent him to the drop bag counter and I just reported his bag with that condition at the counter.

Another passenger was a young student who wanted to check her carry 0n through the kiosk. I took her a bag tag and stuck it on the carry-on’s hand, but I missed checking another side of the bag, which already had an old tag. I usually check the bags for any old tags to be removed before they get the new ones, but I forgot to check about this one, and it caused me a notice and reminder from the manager on duty. So, every day is a new experience and learning new things. “Never stop learning since life never stops teaching. “😊🌹

#Seneca college #FSO425 #cathay pacific

[rosieisposie99]

My first week of Cathay Pacific internship >3

#Best Cathay team !

After orientation, I started my first shift right away on Sunday of that week. Before I bring my story up let me talk about the interview that I had!

Interview

It was a group interview and I remember over ~40 candidates were divided into two groups so I did a group interview with roughly 20 candidates! We were told to do a short self-instruction and the latest movie that I watched for ice-breaking :) After that, we learned about Cathay Pacific itself such as uniforms, cities that Cathay Pacific flies to, and duties as a customer service ambassador.

We then got possible challenging situations/scenarios and discussed what can we do in that situation as customer service ambassadors. I was a bit nervous but one thing good about it was that it was a group interview so we were able to make our opinions solid by supporting each other and adding ideas!

Positions

When it comes to the positions, we have 4 positions which are Queue/Kiosk/SSBD/Kiosk Queue. Usually, the ones that are in the queue area, are responsible for line segmentation so that passengers can find their line based on the class and countries that they are flying to. SSBD is the staff who helps the passengers force their baggage on the belt. Lastly, the Kiosk staff is responsible for letting the passengers the right procedures to print their boarding passes and checked baggage tags.

Overall

During my first week, I got to learn all positions by switching our positions (but not perfectly hehe) and see how the actual flow is going. Helping passengers for their smooth and safe flights before they are onboard is so exciting and grateful!

#seneca #flight attendant #cathay pacific #intership

[kshans]

Day 0 -Cathay Pacific Internship

No official day shift with Cathay Pacific!!

On this day, on the 26 of September, we had an orientation held at the Pearson airport in the Cathay Pacific office. On the same day, I officially met all my colleagues who also be doing the Internship with Cathay Pacific this Fall semester. As we all got to know together while waiting for Claire to pick us up, we noticed that the airport was getting slightly crowded (as we all expected). People are running to catch their flights; some are trying to figure out where their airline counter for check-in location is, saying goodbye to their loved ones before entering the gates, and some have issues while in the check-in area. And also saw some Flight attendant cabin crews and captains in other airlines (Etihad, Philippine airline, air transat, etc.). It’s pretty mesmerizing, though, to see the cabin crew walking with complete confidence, their faces smiling, and the professionalism they show as a cabin crew ambassador of their airline. The moment I saw them, I felt like I was looking at myself, but I realized that I had imagined things (lol). But imma get there soon.

Around 3’ish, the orientation began; of course, we started with an introduction to getting to know a little bit more about each of us so we could be completely comfortable and connect as a team. The orientation is all about information and details that we need to know about our position as a CSA to prepare us for our first-ever shift and following shifts. Claire also covered some facts about the airlines, such as where Cathay Pacific flies (I was a bit shocked when Claire said they fly all over the continent except Antarctica), talk’s about Cathay dragon (Cathay Pacific sister airlines), etc. After 2 hours and a half, we finally had some time to fit our uniform and guess what!!! Everyone went crazy and was pretty much excited. So am I. While waiting for the others to try on their uniform, Claire gave us our name tags and lanyards. Orientation took about 4hrs. However, it’s pretty enjoyable in the end.

#cathay pacific #flight attendant #travel

[maggiehuynhh]

SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2022 | FIRST DAY! Hi guys! So I started my first placement shift at Cathay Pacific Airways on September 21 and I can’t even explain how excited I was when I was heading to the airport. We were scheduled to arrive at the office at around 7:30PM which me and the other students got a chance to explore the airport as we came a little earlier compare to the other Cathay Pacific employees. We were told that our uniforms have arrived that day which made us very excited and we wanted to wear them so bad! As Cathay Pacific has a strict grooming policy, we were advised to come prepared next time so we can wear our uniform properly. 

By 8:30PM, most of the Cathay members have arrived and we prepared for the briefing. The manager got us to introduce ourselves in front of everyone which made us more comfortable as everyone was super welcoming. It was also my first time being in a briefing and there were many unfamiliar terms and abbreviations that was used but hopefully, with more shifts, I’ll be able to pick up on some of the terms.

After the briefing, we all went down to the airport where we are stationed. There were already so many people waiting in line! Me and the other students started handing out the luggage tags to all the passengers that were already in line. After we were done passing out the tags, we started checking if the passengers had the proper documents to enter the country they are visiting. For example, Hong Kong requires a green health declaration QR code.

By 12:30AM, we were all so exhausted and our feet starting hurting a lot as many of us were not use to wearing heels for a long period of time. However, we all enjoyed our first shift as it was very fun working together. We still had some energy to pose for the camera! The highlight for me was definitely assisting passengers in Cantonese as it made me more confident speaking in my native tongue. That’s everything for today. Until next post! 

#cathay pacific #customer service

[brianfrench1995]

Cathay Pacific Convair 880 postcard

@postcardtimemachine

#ephemera #travel #plane #airplane #airplanes #planes #aviation #flying #avgeek #cathay pacific #cv880 #postcard

[steppingintotheworld]

The Selection Day

Today, I want to talk a little about my selection process for an internship as a Customer Service Ambassador.

I know all of my teammates have already posted about their placement and the first day of work already in the beginning of their journey but I wanted to be a little different. I wanted to learn and explore and then bring it to you. So here I am today to share a little about my experience.

Well, I am a student of Flight Services – Operations & Cabin Management program at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. In our last semester, we go through the process of interviewing to get placement with WESTJET and Cathay Pacific Canada at Toronto Airport as an intern.

Like my all other fellow classmates, I also prepared a lot to face the interview. In fact, I asked my mother to take my moke interview which was fun though. Finally, the big day came for the interview and I went through the interview process by Cathay Pacific and WESTJET.

After completing both the interviews, I was a little nervous. Yeah, you read it correctly after the interview. I know everyone gets nervous before the interview but I think I am a little different than others. In fact, I was not able to sleep a night after the interview was over. I was also curious to know what could be my final results.

On the very next day, when I was preparing my breakfast and to my complete surprise I got an email from WESTJET and also on the following day from Cathay Pacific, both mentioning that "I WAS SELECTED". It was a great pleasure and honour that I got an offer from both WESTJET and Cathay Pacific. Undoubtedly, It was really challenging for me to decide which offer I should accept.

Believe me, it took two whole days for me to decide. Indeed, It was very difficult to decide but I have to select one. Both airlines are outstanding in their own way. And finally, I accepted the offer from Cathay Pacific Canada.

Friends, this was my selection process and I was thrilled during the complete selection process.

That is it for today. Stay tuned to read more about my first day at work in my next blog.

Stay safe and bye for now!!!

#interview #selection #internship #seneca #cathay pacific #westjet

[sehgaltania]

My Seneca friends and my co staff with Cathay Pacific airlines. Learning from same institute and working with the same Airlines helped us knowing each other well. They became my first friends in Canada. Many amazing things to learn from them.

#frienship #cathay pacific #work environment #positive life #positive vibes

[aj-torres]

- April 12, 2024 -

Looking back at this group picture from orientation, it's incredible how time has flown by. Back then, I barely knew anyone in the photo, but now, I've made some amazing friendships that I wouldn't have had without this opportunity. I want to express my gratitude to Cathay Pacific and everyone else involved for making these moments unforgettable. Recently, I received the news that I'll be extended for the gap hiring period—a one-month paid contract! I'm incredibly thankful for this opportunity. As I give my farewell to some of my colleagues, I wish them all the best in their future endeavors. A special congratulations is in order for Jayden (to my left) and Jordan (to my right), who have recently been hired as employees for Cathay Pacific. Your hard work has paid off, and I'm thrilled for both of you! 🛫 -

#cathay pacific #farewell #memories