El Al Israel Airlines has announced that they temporarily will cancel their 6 weekly flights between Hong Kong and Tel Aviv, Israel, until March 20th due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
El Al Israel Airlines temporarily cancels flights to Hong Kong.
Cathay said they would reduce their flights by 30% due to the virus outbreak, but….
It looks like they are cancelling a lot more. They also said they would reduce their capacity to Mainland China by 90%, and that seems to be accurate.
Philippine Airlines extends Hong Kong (and Macau and mainland China cancellations until March 28)
According to a statement on Philippine Airlines homepage this is the latest status for flights between the Philippines and Hong Kong:
Philippine Airlines has extended until March 28, 2020 the cancellation of flights between Manila and the following points in greater China: BEIJING, HONG KONG, GUANGZHOU, SHANGHAI, XIAMEN, QUANZHOU (JINJIANG) and MACAU.
Keep on reading!American Airlines extends Hong Kong cancellations until late April
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.
American Airlines temporarily cancels all Hong Kong Flights
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!Virgin Australia permanently cancels all flights to Hong Kong amidt Coronavirus outbreak and months of anti-government protests.
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!Update on travel restrictions.
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:
Keep on reading!Stopover in Doha
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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Keep on reading!REVIEW – CONRAD HOTEL, MACAU.
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.
Keep on reading!