1st narrowbody in Cathay Pacific-livery in almost 40 years

Earlier this year Cathay Pacific announced it would discontinue its Cathay Dragon-brand. As a result, a first narrowbody aircraft has now been painted in Cathay Pacific's livery. The last narrowbody to wear a Cathay Pacific-livery was the B707, which was phased-out in 1983.

The aircraft involved is A321-200N B-HPB (9228), which was delivered to Hong Kong on 14 November. It was then carrying the Cathay Dragon-livery. A second A321neo, B-HPD (10091) has been delivered (also in the Dragon-livery) on 9 December and will also be repainted in the coming weeks. In total Cathay will receive fourteen A321neos.

Photo by Xiang Fei.