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.
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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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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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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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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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.
Keep on reading!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.
The owner of the airline is Bill Wong Chu-bau, a Hong Kong resident who is also the owner of Senzhen-based airline Donghai.
Continue reading “Will newcomer Greater Bay Airline be Hong Kong’s new operator?”