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Qantas wins new Hong Kong flight rights
New services between London and Australia via Hong Kong are planned by Qantas.
The carrier has won the right to extra flights in an agreement between the Australian government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The deal enables Qantas to develop Hong Kong as a transit and stop-over point as well as a destination in its own right.
Qantas can now develop new services to London via Hong Kong as well as additional Australia-Hong Kong flights.
The airline’s chief executive Geoff Dixon said: “Under the new arrangements, Qantas has the potential to offer four Hong Kong-London flights immediately, increasing to seven flights a week in 2006.
“The additional capacity available, which represents a doubling ot capacity in 2006, will allow us to look at a range of competitive opportunities to promote air travel to Hong Kong and beyond.”
Qantas runs 28 flights a week from four points in Australia to Hong Kong, a destination served since 1949. Low cost offshoot Australian Airlines also serves Hong Kong three times a week from Cairns.
Report by Phil Davies
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