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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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.
Cathay Pacific already last week canceled their flights from the UK to Hong Kong for 2 weeks due to the new strain of the Coronavirus, and Hong Kong Governments ban on anyone who have been in the UK for more than 2 hours in the last 3 weeks to enter Hong Kong.
Keep on reading!in November last year, Virgin Australia announced the removal of Melbourne – Hong Kong flights – set to cease on 11 February 2020 – while the worsening viability of Hong Kong flights has now led the airline to withdraw from the city altogether. The final Sydney – Hong Kong service will take place on 2 March.
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