{"id":302,"date":"2016-01-28T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-02-11T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:03:00","slug":"hong-kong-based-dragonair-re-branded-cathay-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong based Dragonair to be re-branded Cathay Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong based Dragonair will soon be re-branded as Cathay Dragon, as the Cathay Pacific Group has announced a new era of growth opportunity has arrived for its two airlines. Dragonair became a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific in 2006, and\u00a0has been adding new destinations to its flight network\u00a0ever since. Passenger traffic has\u00a0grown\u00a0from 22 million a year to more than 34 million last year.\u00a0This\u00a0growth has been achieved by\u00a0Cathay Pacific\u2019s connecting of international passengers\u00a0through China&#8217;s Hong Kong International Airport. The airline\u00a0rebranding will benefit\u00a0customers by providing them with more\u00a0convenient and seamless travel\u00a0connection options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dragonair-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"Dragonair\" width=\"650\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dragonair-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dragonair-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dragonair-1024x389.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dragonair.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong based Dragonair will soon be re-branded as Cathay Dragon, as the Cathay Pacific Group has announced a new era of growth opportunity has arrived for its two airlines. Dragonair became a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific in 2006, and\u00a0has been adding new destinations to its flight network\u00a0ever since. Passenger traffic has\u00a0grown\u00a0from 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-dragonair-cathay-pacific-group-dragon-hong-kong-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}