The Board of Directors of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited announced that: Mr. Samuel Compton SWIRE (‘Mr. Swire') has resigned as a Non-Executive Director of the Company; and Mr. Gordon Douglas MCCALLUM (‘Mr. McCallum') has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company, such resignation and appointment to take effect on January 12, 2023. Mr. Swire has confirmed that he is not aware of any matter relating to his resignation that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company. He has also confirmed that he has resigned to devote more time to the businesses of John Swire & Sons Limited (‘JS&SL', the holding company of the wider Swire group) and that he has no disagreement with the Board of the Company.

Mr. McCallum, aged 62, is a director of JS&SL and Swire Pacific Limited (‘SPAC'). He is chairman of Argent Energy Holdings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JS&SL, and of Zopa Group Limited. He is also a director of Zopa Bank Limited, and a senior advisor to Searchlight Capital Partners.

He was a non-executive director of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and associated companies from 2013 to 2022, also serving as chairman of the audit committee during this period. He was also a director of Global Risk Partners Limited from 2020 to 2022. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are: Executive Directors: Patrick Healy (Chair), Gregory Hughes, Ronald Lam, Lavinia Lau, Rebecca Sharpe; Non-Executive Directors: Ma Chongxian (Deputy Chair), Guy Bradley, Sun Yuquan, Merlin Swire, Samuel Swire, Xiao Feng, Zhang Zhuo Ping; Independent Non-Executive Directors: Bernard Chan, John Harrison, Christoph Mueller and Andrew Tung.