Chinese airline Loong Air has started operations between Hong Kong and their hub in Hangzhou earlier in August 2022. As far as I know, this is the first time this airline has operated passenger flights into Hong Kong, and is one of the first new airlines to start flying to Hong Kong after aviation almost came to a halt due to Covis-19.
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It has been a while since the forming of Greater Bay Airlines was announced, and many have been waiting for news about them commencing operations from their base at Hong Kong International Airport.
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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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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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According to a press release issued by the Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection today, Singapore Airlines budget carrier Scoot will receive a ban of bringing passengers into Hong Kong from Friday the 16th of April and for 2 weeks.
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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.
