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Emirates receives new 2-week ban in Hong Kong

Emirates has posted the following to their website:

Flights to Hong Kong:
As per the latest authority directive in Hong Kong, customers holding tickets on flight EK 384 with final destination to Hong Kong from 13‑26 April 2021, will not be accepted for travel at their point of origin. However customers traveling to Bangkok as the final destination will be accepted for travel.
Affected customers should contact their travel agent or Emirates contact centre for rebooking options.
Flights from Hong Kong:
Customers booked to travel on flight EK 385 from Hong Kong during this period will be accepted for travel.
Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused. To receive update notifications, customers are requested to ensure their contact details are correct by visiting Manage Your Booking.

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Hong Kong’s 3-step plan to lift restrictions on gatherings in restaurants and bars.

Yesterday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced the Hong Kong governments 3-step plan on lifting the restrictions on restaurants and bars in Hong Kong. The new measures are expected to come in force on April 29th, and then in stages after that.

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Singapore Airlines next airline to join the ‘Banned from Hong Kong for 2 weeks list’

Local authorities in Hong Kong has announced that Singapore Airlines will be banned from bringing passenger in to Hong Kong for 2 weeks until April 16th, 2021.

The ban was places after one passenger who arrived in Hong Kong on Singapore Airlines flight SQ882 on Wednesday was confirmed to be infected by COVID-19, while 3 other passengers failed to comply with the requirements specified under the Prevention and Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-boundary Conveyances and Travellers) Regulation, according to a press release issued by the Department of Healts on Friday afternoon.

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Designated Quarantine Hotels: Third Cycle (valid until 19.6.2021)

The Hong Kong government has released the latest list of approved quarantine hotels for everyone arriving in Hong Kong who has to undergo mandatory quarantine.

The list features 30 hotels, and there is only one new hotel this cycle, the ‘Jen by Shangri-La’, the remaining 29 hotels were all part of the 2nd cycle hotels also.

The full list can be found here

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Emirates resumes Airbus A380 flights to Hong Kong

First scheduled Emirates A380 landing in Hong Kong today

Emirates resumed today daily Airbus A380 flights between Dubai and Hong Kong (via Bangkok.) This service was suspended probably about a year ago, not too long after the COVID-19 outbreak. Emirates is now the first operator to resume regular A380 flights to Hong Kong.

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Cathay Pacific reduces flight schedule further

As I rote about a few days ago, Hong Kong is introducing 2 weeks quarantine for aircrews from February 20th, and as a result of this Cathay has now announced further reduction to their passenger flights schedule.

The new long-haul and regional flight schedules are as follows:

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Hong Kong to introduce 2 weeks quarantine for aircrew from February 20th

The Government will tighten the testing and isolation arrangements for air crew members, sea crew members of goods vessels entering Hong Kong for cargo operations and other exempted people from February 20.

It is considered necessary to further tighten the epidemic control measures on all inbound travellers comprehensively based on the latest COVID-19 prevention risk assessment.

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Hong Kong to place around 150 buildings in lockdown.

The Hong Kong Government has announced that effective midnight tonight they are putting around 150 buildings in the Yau Tsim Mong district under lockdown.

The affected area, between Jordan Road, Nathan Road, Kansu street and Ferry street. The number on each building indicates number of cases is the last 2 weeks.
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Hong Kong extends travel ban to Brazil and Ireland.

Last month Hong Kong Government decided to ban entry of anyone to Hong Kong who had been in the UK or South Africa in the last 21 days, and 2 days ago they announced that they are adding Brazil and Ireland to that list. This is in order to try to prevent any spread of a new, more virulent strain of the coronavirus. The ban remains in force until further notice.

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Air Traffic Statistics for Hong Kong, November 2020

The numbers for November 2020 seems to indicate an increase in traffic compared to previous months, although again way down compared to a year ago.

  • Passenger numbers are down from 5.027.000 in 2019 to only 81.000 in 2020. That is up 2.000 from October
  • Tonnes of cargo handled is 436.000, down 13.000 from the year before. Compared to October it is up 32.000
  • Flight movements were 12.565, down 61.4% from 2019 when there were 32.528, but up over 15% from October, from 10.880.