Dragonair is a major
airline based in
Hong Kong. It is associated to
Cathay Pacific.
Dragonair started flying in
July of
1985, with a
Boeing 737, in a flight from
Hong Kong International Airport to
Kota Kinabalu[?] in
Malaysia. At the time, Dragonair was only a small new player in the
Asian skies, and the airline's name was
Hong Kong Dragon Airlines.In
1986, the airline officially changed its name to
Dragonair. In
1987, the airline began charter flights to mainland
China. This was also the year that Dragonair became the first Hong Kong-based airline to join the
IATA. The airline kept a slow but steady growth throught the
1990s, decade in which it became associated with Cathay Pacific. In
1993,
Airbus A320's joined the fleet, followed by Airbus A330s in
1995. In
1998, Dragonair became the last airline to have a plane landing at
Kai Tak International Airport[?]. Nowadays, Dragonair flies to 29 destinations.
Dragonair's planes are basically all white, with a red dragon on the tail, and the name Dragonair written in
English dark lettering under the front passenger windows, and in
Chinese red lettering over the front passenger windows also.
Dragonair currently operates Airbus A320, A321 and A330 jets.
29 cities around China, the rest of Asia, the
Middle East (cargo flights only), and
Europe (also cargo flights only).