Category: Hong Kong Airport

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Singapore Airlines next airline to join the ‘Banned from Hong Kong for 2 weeks list’

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.

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Emirates resumes Airbus A380 flights to Hong Kong

First scheduled Emirates A380 landing in Hong Kong today

Emirates resumed today daily Airbus A380 flights between Dubai and Hong Kong (via Bangkok.) This service was suspended probably about a year ago, not too long after the COVID-19 outbreak. Emirates is now the first operator to resume regular A380 flights to Hong Kong.

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Cathay Pacific reduces flight schedule further

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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Hong Kong to introduce 2 weeks quarantine for aircrew from February 20th

The Government will tighten the testing and isolation arrangements for air crew members, sea crew members of goods vessels entering Hong Kong for cargo operations and other exempted people from February 20.

It is considered necessary to further tighten the epidemic control measures on all inbound travellers comprehensively based on the latest COVID-19 prevention risk assessment.

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Air Traffic Statistics for Hong Kong, October 2020

In my effort to catch up, it is now time for the October numbers to be shared as well. I do expect that those as well are severely down from last year, but I also believe there will be a slight increase from September again.

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Air Traffic Statistics for Hong Kong, September 2020

As with all previous months this year, the numbers for Hong Kong air traffic is severely down from August 2019.

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Air Traffic Statistics at Hong Kong August 2020

As with everything in this blog, I have been falling behind in reporting the traffic statistics, but I will try to get out the last few months over the next week or so.

As always this year, numbers are down big time compared with same month last year.

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Air Traffic Statistics at Hong Kong July 2020

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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Will newcomer Greater Bay Airline be Hong Kong’s new operator?

It is quite rare nowdays with new airlines starting up, but The Civil Aviation Authorities of Hong Kong are processing the new airline’s application for an air operator certificate in Hong Kong.

Sunset over Hong Kong Airport.

The owner of the airline is Bill Wong Chu-bau, a Hong Kong resident who is also the owner of Senzhen-based airline Donghai.

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Cathay Pacific reports record-high HK$9.9 billion loss in first half of 2020

This does probably not come as a surprise to anyone, but Cathay Pacific is loosing money fast. With a reported drop in passenger number of more than 98.5% compared to a year ago, it is basically only the cargo division that is bringing some cash in for the company.

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