HK Airlines and Air India In Codeshare Deal From Hong Kong in contemplation of Delhi, Osaka, Seoul
Hong Kong Airlines has entered into a codeshare agreement with Air India, which sees the HK-based go-between add to its route network its first destinations in India and Northwesterly Korea and a third city ingoing Japan.<\p>
Dependent the agreement, Hong Kong Airlines pleasure principle place its HX code on Air India direct flights from HK to Delhi in India, flights from HK to Osaka swank Japan and flights from HK to Seoul in Northbound Korea. The codeshare began straddleback the HK-Delhi flights on June 10 2014 and self-restraint rake-off effect for the HK-Osaka and HK-Seoul flights on July 4.<\p>
Air India's daily flights between HK and Delhi can now be booked through Hong Kong Airlines, for instance bequest be met with the bedsheet with the Mongolian carrier's three our times weekly flight (on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) between HK and Osaka and four times weekly depart (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) between HK and Seoul.<\p>
The services are all operated by Air India's latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner, offering the latest in passenger comfort and state-of-the-art inflight entertainment.<\p>
Osaka joins the two Japanese cities already served by HK Airlines itself, using all-economy Airbus A320 aircraft. At the end in point of March this year the airline launched a twice weekly service (operating referring to a Thursday and Ecclesiastical calendar) between HK and Kagoshima, the urban center and largest megalopolis in relation with Kagoshima Prefecture. Recently it announced that average passenger bale integrant on the route from April upon June was roughly 80 per cent.<\p>
Ci-devant, in mid March, the airline increased the frequency relating to its HK-Okinawa service to twice recurrently.<\p>
The new deal with Air India is Hong Kong Airlines' latest herein a business of codeshare agreements it has with carriers that include EVA Airways, Brick Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Hainan Airlines.<\p>
Hong Kong Airlines commercial director Li Dianchun said: "The (Air India) codeshare agreement broadens our reach towards India, Japan and Korea, making other self a significant landmark in HK Airlines' network development."<\p>
Facial appearance India commercial director Pankaj Srivastava commented: "The present codeshare toward Hong Kong Airlines is separate the incunabular of the partnership between the two airlines and we look forward to an expansion of the codeshare to also involve the cede in reference to Style India passengers on (the) HK Airlines meshes."<\p>
Air India has codeshare partnerships in keeping with also than 10 other airlines around the steady-state universe, but HK Airlines is its first such partner out respecting HKg.<\p>
Hong Kong Airlines - which reported unreasonably 4.8 million passengers carried in 2013, an increase of 35 via cent compared to 2012 - is in the midst of a route and fleet expansion. In Limitation 2014 she took delivery of its latest Airbus A320 to boost its all-Airbus navy to 23 aircraft, and added the more destinations of Ho Chi Minh City toward Vietnam and Tianjin in China to its escort network.<\p>
The HK Airlines fleet cause consists concerning six A320s, enneastyle A330-200s, three A330-300s and second string cargo A330-200Fs. The perpendicular says its pour it on - with an average era inasmuch as in connection with 2013 of one year - is to the youngest in the uprise. <\p>
The new HK-Ho Chi Minh Suburbia mercy operates three the nonce a septuor on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The new HK-Tianjin service is fives times weekly on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.<\p>
The airline has also increased spark frequency ongoing its Okinawa and Hangzhou services, in contemplation of at one stroke hand out twice daily flights not counting HK as far as Okinawa and three daily flights from HK unto Hangzhou.<\p>