Cathay Pacific has recently inaugurated a new direct flight route between Hong Kong and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, enhancing connectivity between these two dynamic cities. This service commenced on October 28, 2024, marking a significant milestone in the airline’s expansion into the Middle Eastern market.
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Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) saw steady growth in March 2024, continuing its upward trajectory in both passenger numbers and cargo handling. While growth slowed slightly compared to earlier months, the overall performance remains positive, with year-on-year increases across the board.
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Cathay Pacific is slowly increasing their network again, and here is an overview of which destinations they are operating TO in September 2022:
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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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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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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.
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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Cathay Pacific already last week canceled their flights from the UK to Hong Kong for 2 weeks due to the new strain of the Coronavirus, and Hong Kong Governments ban on anyone who have been in the UK for more than 2 hours in the last 3 weeks to enter Hong Kong.
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To the surprise of nobody the traffic numbers at Hong Kong International Airport are stable low in the month of July 2020 as well. As always, the numbers are compared to the month one year previous, so those numbers are in comparison to July 2019.
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