As a sign of traffic, aviation and traveling slowly resuming in Hong Kong, Singapore Airlines is now the 3rd operator to resume flights with their Airbus A380 into Hong Kong International Airport.
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Today’s new operator into Hong Kong was West Airs flight 8643 from Zhengzhou. The route was operated by an Airbus A321, and is also scheduled for a flight next Thursday. If this is a new ruote or just two test flights is not known, but it does seem like more and more operators are coming to Hong Kong – new and old ones alike.
I did not see this coming (at least not as the first airline to (re)-start this route, but Philippine Airlines will start operating Clark – Hong Kong three times weekly from December 9th. This is the first time (to my knowledge) that they will be operating this route. Pre-covid it was operated twice daily by Cebu Pacific and once daily by Dragonair, so I am sure the demand it there.
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British Airways has announced that they will resume daily flights between London Heathrow and Hong Kong effective December 5, 2022. They will for now operate a daily flight with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
British Airways used to operate two daily flights before the pandemic, one Boeing 777 and one Airbus A380, so we are quite far from the capacity they used back then, but this is still a sign of traffic starting to come back to Hong Kong now that arrival quarantine has been canceled.
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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The Civil International Air Traffic Statistics for HKIA for July 2021 was as follows:
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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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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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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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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