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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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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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.
