As I wrote a few days ago, American Airlines has canceled all their flights to Hong Kong until March 27th. However, they have now extended the cancellations to late April:
Flights from Dallas to Hong Kong were suspended through February 20, 2020.
Flights from Los Angeles to Hong Kong were suspended through March 27, 2020
If you have any tickets booked before these dates, you should be able to either re-book them to a later date or get a full refund online.
With the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus there has been a lot of cancellations of flights to and from Hong Kong. On this list is also American Airlines, which have just updated the temporarily cancelation of all Hong Kong flights.
Keep on reading!in November last year, Virgin Australia announced the removal of Melbourne – Hong Kong flights – set to cease on 11 February 2020 – while the worsening viability of Hong Kong flights has now led the airline to withdraw from the city altogether. The final Sydney – Hong Kong service will take place on 2 March.
Keep on reading!With the outbreak of the NcOv – Coronavirus or Wuhan phnumonia, there are lots of travel restrictions put in place.
I will try to keep this updated, but as restrictions change all the time this is just a guidannce, and you are adviced to check with your airline before making any travel plans.
As of February 7th the following restritions were in force:
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This was the part of the trip that I was dreading the most – a 11 hour stop-over in Doha. On the way to Norway we were given a free hotel stay for our 8.5 hours stop-over, however, on this trip they did not, as they said we could have traveled with a shorter connection time in Doha. That might be true, but in that case we would have had a 10 hour stop-over with no lounge access in Copenhagen instead, which would have been even worse in my opinion.
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When I was in Macau in December I made enough points with Sands rewards to get a free night stay with their group again, and this time I decided I would try the Venetian, but I was advised it was not available, but they would offer me the Conrad hotel in Cotai, Macau instead.
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The Cathay Pacific Group released recently the combined Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon traffic figures for December 2019 that show decreases in the number of passengers carried and the amount of cargo and mail uplifted compared to the same month in 2018.
Keep on reading!So this was the most disappointing part of the trip, when I made the booking the flight showed with Q-suites, but about 2 weeks before departure I got an email saying there has been change of equipment, and looking at the seat map I realized we were to fly in a Boeing 777 with the ‘old’ business class.
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