Month: September 2022

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East / North Asia opening up again

This week there has been several announcements from east or north Asian countries about opening up. The most significant ones has been:

  • Hong Kong removing hotel quarantine effective September 26
  • Taiwan to remove hotel quarantine effective October 13-ish
  • South Korea to remove outdoors mask mandate effective September 26
  • Japan to resume visa-free entry for all previous approved nations effective October 11.
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British Airways to resume passenger flights between London Heathrow and Hong Kong December 5, 2022.

British Airways has announced that they will resume daily flights between London Heathrow and Hong Kong effective December 5, 2022. They will for now operate a daily flight with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

British Airways used to operate two daily flights before the pandemic, one Boeing 777 and one Airbus A380, so we are quite far from the capacity they used back then, but this is still a sign of traffic starting to come back to Hong Kong now that arrival quarantine has been canceled.

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ANA to resume flights between Tokyo Haneda and Hong Kong

ANA has announced that effective 31st of October 2022 they will resume flights between Tokyo Haneda airport and Hong Kong with 4 weekly flights. They will be the first airline to resume flights between Haneda and Hong Kong, although there are several daily flights between Tokyo’s other main airport, Narita, and Hong Kong.

With the end of hotel quarantine announced today for arrivals in Hong Kong I am sure we will see many more announcements of routes resuming over the next few weeks.

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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in August 2021

The civil international air traffic statistics for Hong Kong International Airport in August 2021 was as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 164.9% compared to a year earlier from 84.000 to 222.000
  • Cargo tonnes handled was up 15.5% from 372.000 to 429.000 tonnes.
  • Passenger flight movements were up 70.2% from 3.776 to 6.425
  • Cargo flight movements were up 2.6% from 6.011 to 6.165
  • Non-revenue flights were up 17% from 218 to 255
  • Total flight movements were up 28.4% from 10.005 to 12.845.
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Hong Kong Quarantine Ending!

Today it was finally announced that quarantine for arriving passengers to Hong Kong is ending, effective September 26, 2022. It has been about 2.5 years with travel restrictions in the city, and now we are getting as close to normal as we have been for a very long time.

Continue reading “Hong Kong Quarantine Ending!”
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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in July 2021

The Civil International Air Traffic Statistics for HKIA for July 2021 was as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 15.5% from 96.000 to 110.000 (first time above 100.000 since March 2020)
  • Cargo tonnes handeles was up 4.6% from 373.000 to 419.000
  • Passenger flight movements were up 50.9% from 3.621 to 5.465
  • Cargo flights movements were up 3.3% from 5.968 to 6.165
  • Non-revenue flights were down 22.5% from 284 to 220
  • Total flights movements were up 20% from 9.873 to 11.850
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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in June 2021

The civil international air traffic statistics at HKIA for June 2021 compared to 2020 were as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 40.1% from 59.000 to 83.000
  • Cargo tonnes handled were up 11.5% from 358.000 to 399.000
  • Passenger flight movements were up 29.7% from 3716 to 4820
  • Cargo flight movements were up 1.9% from 5914 to 6025
  • Non-revenue flights were down 38.4% from 333 to 205
  • Total air traffic movements were up 10.9% from 9963 to 11050
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Tripreport – First time to visit Japan (Tokyo)

So this was never supposed to be a trip-report, but as I have not been able to travel for 18 months now, I’ve ran out of new things to write about, and rather start working my way through my old travels to conserve some of those memories 🙂

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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA May 2021

The number for civil international air traffic movements at HKIA in May 2021 compared to a year earlier was as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 57.7% from 37.000 to 59.000
  • Cargo tonnes handled was up 7.3% from 377.000 tonnes to 405.000 tonnes
  • Passenger flights movements was down 4.6% from 4.680 to 4.465
  • Cargo flights movements was down 3.9% from 6.418 to 6.165
  • Non-revenue movements was down 7.5% from 265 to 245
  • Total aircraft movements was down 4.3% from 11.363 to 10.875.
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Sichuan Airlines resumes flights between Hong Kong and Chengdu

As traffic seems to be slowly coming back to Hong Kong, Sichuan Airlines have resumed their flights between Hong Kong and Chengdu.

Sichuan Airlines currently operate this route 3 times per week, The route is mainly operated by an Airbus A330, but also sometime with an Airbus A321. The flight is scheduled to leave Chengdu at 14:20 and arrive in Hong Kong at 17:00. The return flight leaves Hong Kong at 18:30, and arrives in Chengdu at 21:00