Hong Kong Airlines once again plans to operate long haul flights, after that strategy nearly liquidated the airline back in 2019. However, the company is going about it a bit more conservatively this time around.
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Wow! they will need to have some luck to get "established" and then they should add more flights than just twice a week. Unfortunately, it seems that they are going to fly to Vancouver and Gold Coast because they can't pay for Seattle and Brisbane the nearest large cities to the two.
Wow! they will need to have some luck to get "established" and then they should add more flights than just twice a week. Unfortunately, it seems that they are going to fly to Vancouver and Gold Coast because they can't pay for Seattle and Brisbane the nearest large cities to the two.
I'm not sure to what extent their operation have came back to normal, because I've seen the airline only offering a creamy bread as a meal service on an ICN-HKG flight (which is almost unheard of in the region, for a flight of that length). But regardless, I hope they can expand once again (and most importantly, in a financially sustainable manner) and boost some supply lost in last few years.
Chinese carriers have really shrunken since pandemic, in terms of their international flights supply. Especially the flights to the US, they're almost non-existence compared to pre-Pandemic level, and with Donald Trump coming back to the White House, I guess there would be no chance of Chinese carriers' US flights increasing any time soon.
China Southern just announced that they're gonna sell their B788s, due to decrease in demand and the inefficiency of the type.
ICN is a low yield destination for them, free flights had been brought back for HND, KIX, CTS, PEK, PVG, DPS, and MLE
one person making all kinds of posts under different names is the normal for this website
Surprised it's not SEA given how everyone seems to be launching service there all the time these days.
YVR will do fine. Canada is starved for non-Air Canada flights. HK Airlines will probably partner with WestJet for some feed and call it a day.
Vancouver’s population is 2.6MM to Seattle’s 4.0MM, however it is 50% Asian compared to 14% for Seattle. Specifically, the Chinese population in Vancouver is at least 3 times that of Seattle. Not sure it’s a decision based on what the airline can afford.
I think they may position themselves as a lower-cost carrier for transit passengers travelling to/from SE Asia to/from Canada or AUS
A decision on whether to pick this restructured carrier should hinge not only on safety, product, and, say catering, but also on information about the current fate of investors and employees of the prior version.
Fair is fair.
There’s a big community of people from Hong Kong living in Vancouver, who moved there when HK transitioned from the UK to China and the years after.
Lucky…you are an accomplished writer which makes your occasional grammatical errors more glaring. “Comprised of” is simply bad English. The phrase is commonly used to mean "is made up of," but "comprise" already means "to be made up of," so saying "is comprised of" is redundant.
Lucky…you are an accomplished writer which makes your occasional grammatical errors more glaring. “Comprised of” is simply bad English. The phrase is commonly used to mean "is made up of," but "comprise" already means "to be made up of," so saying "is comprised of" is redundant.