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Hong Kong Airlines to launch weekend giveaway of tickets as it marks return to 75 per cent of pre-coronavirus flight levels

  • Airline says popular destinations Japan and Thailand already back to pre-coronavirus flight levels
  • Carrier says it plans to return to 100 per cent of pre-pandemic flight numbers by middle of next year

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Hong Kong Airlines staff and youngsters on Friday promote the carrier’s ticket giveaway over the weekend. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
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Hong Kong Airlines has recovered to 75 per cent of its pre-pandemic number of flights and the financial state of the carrier is “very healthy”, chief executive Jeff Sun Jianfeng has said.
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Sun, head of the second-largest airline in the city, told the Post on Friday that popular destinations Japan and Thailand had already reached 100 per cent of pre-pandemic flight levels as the carrier looked to increase its fleet and international network.

The airline, which hit the 75 per cent target four months earlier than predicted in January, said it planned to get back to 100 per cent of pre-pandemic flight levels by the middle of next year.

“For the coming months we plan to continue to fly to new destinations in Japan and have more [flight] frequencies, for example, Taipei,” Sun said.

Members of the public pose with Hong Kong Airlines’ a Hong Kong Airlines promotional model at Fashion Walk on Causeway Bay’s Paterson Street on Friday. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Members of the public pose with Hong Kong Airlines’ a Hong Kong Airlines promotional model at Fashion Walk on Causeway Bay’s Paterson Street on Friday. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

The carrier has restarted flights to 23 destinations, including Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Bangkok, Beijing and Shanghai. It flew to 34 places before the pandemic hit in 2020.

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