Hong Kong Airlines

Hong Kong Airlines | May 13, 2016

Hong Kong Airlines has announced it will launch its first daily direct flight to Auckland. The daily service will start on November 10, and will carry 283 passengers, including 24 in business class. It's scheduled to land in Auckland at 9.30pm. There has been a steady increase in the number of travellers from Hong Kong and Mainland China visiting New Zealand, said Li Dianchun, Chief Commercial Officer of Hong Kong Airlines....

Hong Kong Airlines | May 07, 2016

Almost 20 people were injured when a Hong Kong Airlines flight ran into severe turbulence causing the pilot to turn back as it flew from Bali to Hong Kong. The Airbus A330-200 with 204 passengers and 12 crew on board returned to Bali, the Indonesian island, about two and a half hours into the flight. It landed safely at 4.34am local time on Saturday, 8.34pm GMT on Friday. The plane encountered the turbulence above Kalimantan, Indonesia's part of Borneo, the general manager of Bali's Ngur...

Hong Kong Airlines | June 23, 2016

Hong Kong’s flagship airline has finally bowed to public pressure by slapping a blanket ban on shark fin being carried on any of its planes. But Cathay Pacific, the city’s biggest carrier, and its sister ­airline Dragonair have left the door open to a possible U-turn by saying the new policy will be ­subject to review. The move – which will take ­effect immediately – comes after budget airline HK Express became the first local carrier to axe shark fin shipment...

Hong Kong Airlines | June 01, 2016

Virgin Australia has applied for regulatory permission to launch daily flights from Australia to Hong Kong and Beijing next June just a day after it revealed China's HNA Aviation would take a 13 per cent stake in the Australian carrier and receive a board seat.The application to the International Air Services Commission, which allocates capacity on the China and Hong Kong routes, was lodged on Tuesday. Virgin said it would use a 275-seat A330-200 aircraft departing from a "major Austral...