This week there has been several announcements from east or north Asian countries about opening up. The most significant ones has been:
Today it was finally announced that quarantine for arriving passengers to Hong Kong is ending, effective September 26, 2022. It has been about 2.5 years with travel restrictions in the city, and now we are getting as close to normal as we have been for a very long time.
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In a press release today the Hong Kong Government announced that they are implementing an upgraded health declaration system for arriving passengers into Hong Kong in order to streamline the arrival process, and make both check-in and arrival procedures for passengers to Hong Kong easier.
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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.
The Government announced yesterday (June 24) that the quarantine requirements for persons arriving from the United Kingdom (UK) will be tightened from June 28, while testing requirement for boarding flights from high-risk places will be adjusted from June 26.
Quarantine requirements for persons who have stayed in the UK
Emirates has posted the following to their website:
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As per the latest authority directive in Hong Kong, customers holding tickets on flight EK 384 with final destination to Hong Kong from 13‑26 April 2021, will not be accepted for travel at their point of origin. However customers traveling to Bangkok as the final destination will be accepted for travel.
Affected customers should contact their travel agent or Emirates contact centre for rebooking options.
Flights from Hong Kong:
Customers booked to travel on flight EK 385 from Hong Kong during this period will be accepted for travel.
Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused. To receive update notifications, customers are requested to ensure their contact details are correct by visiting Manage Your Booking.
Yesterday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced the Hong Kong governments 3-step plan on lifting the restrictions on restaurants and bars in Hong Kong. The new measures are expected to come in force on April 29th, and then in stages after that.
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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.
The Hong Kong government has released the latest list of approved quarantine hotels for everyone arriving in Hong Kong who has to undergo mandatory quarantine.
The list features 30 hotels, and there is only one new hotel this cycle, the ‘Jen by Shangri-La’, the remaining 29 hotels were all part of the 2nd cycle hotels also.
The full list can be found here
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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