With the outbreak of Covid-19 and the effect it had on aviation two years ago, Cathay Pacific parked a lot of their aircrafts for a long time. Initially they were parked at Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong as you can see on the picture above, and they slowly moved them to a long term parkin in the desert in Alice Springs in Australia.
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Virgin Atlantic was originally planning on resuming flights between London Heathrow and Hong Kong from September 1st 2022, but they have now announced that they will only resume flight in March 2023 at the earliest!
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Fiji Airways was supposed to resume the route between Nadi and Hong Kong in the beginning of August 2022, once weekly, and increase to three weekly flights from the middle of October, but they have now announced that the route will remain suspended until at least the end of October 2022.
Cathay Pacific seems to be in the progress of resuming more flights and routes over the next few months, and have announced they will resume several routes to the US and Canada.
The following new schedule has been confirmed for July:
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It has now been about a year since I had the energy to make a post on this blog. The point of this blog was to be a happy place where I saved my travel memories and documented the growth of air traffic in Hong Kong while I was working and living here.
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This is where the traffic statistics soon stats to be interesting, the number for the first few months of this year are now out, and can be compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. January 2020 was still ok, but in the months after that we started seeing a steep decline in the aviation world.
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I read in South China Morning Post yesterday that there are now talks about opening up for quarantine-free traveling between Hong Kong and Macau as soon as this month possibly (although I doubt it), but I thought anyways it was time to finish my last hotel review from Macau from 2020.
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China’s Xhengdu Tianfu Airport opened up for it’s first commercial flight on Sunday June 27th. The new Airport is located about 50km south-east of Chengdu’s city center, and will serve travelers to the Sichuan province in addition the already existing Shuangilu airport, making Chengdu the 3rd city in China to have two international airport, in addition to Beijing and Shanghai.
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Traffic at Hong Kong International Airport was almost the same in December 2020 as it was in November the same year.
Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.
It said in a statement Monday that the U.K. has been classified as “extremely high risk.“
Under the classification, people who have stayed in the U.K. for more than two hours will be restricted from boarding passenger flights to Hong Kong.
The statement said the flight ban was issued because of the “recent rebound of the epidemic situation in the U.K. and the widespread delta variant virus strain there.”
It is the second time that the Hong Kong government has banned flights from the U.K., following a restriction imposed last December.
The U.K. flight ban comes as Hong Kong is looking to relax quarantine measures for most other countries, including the U.S. and Canada.
Several other countries, including the Philippines and Indonesia, also face flight bans to Hong Kong.
