Suspension of Hong Kong Airlines flights to Gold Coast and Cairns
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CityRail
CityRail
Singapore Airlines - KrisFlyer
Member since 17 Nov 2014
Total posts 78
Hong Kong Airlines today announced that it will suspend its services to Gold Coast and Cairns from 28 October 2018, due to its changing business strategy in the Australian market.
The last Hong Kong Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Gold Coast and Cairns will be HX015 on 27 October 2018, while the last flight from Gold Coast and Cairns to Hong Kong will be HX016 on 28 October 2018.
Source: https://www.hongkongairlines.com/en_AU/special_news/detail?id=10005557176
Another blow for Virgin Australia - the new partner is shutting down their own flight to Australia.
DanV
DanV
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
Member since 04 Nov 2017
Total posts 96
Probably the slots may be used for BNE-HKG on VA metal instead? Noted the HX HKG-CNS-OOL-HKG varied between 2-4x weekly depending on season.
GBRGB
GBRGB
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
Member since 21 Jan 2014
Total posts 292
Cairns needs to sort out direct routes to be successful in the future, this going via OOL is a pain regardless of which direction, Cairns also needs to provide some decent lounge options if it is going to chase full service airlines with business class offering, the current Reef Lounge is poor and not up to domestic lounge quality let alone business class.