At the completion of the Second World War, Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow – two ex-Airs Force pilots known for flying The Hump over the Himalayas – perceive an opportunity to fly truly vital items from Australia into China. They buy a Douglas DC-3 plane, nicknamed Betsy, and Cathay Pacific is definitively considered an airplane fuelled by its coordinators energy for flying, moderate thinking and drive to relate the world and its kinfolk.