HK Express on expansion path
- BTN News
- Thursday, 28 March 2024
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways’ budget airline, HK Express, aims to double the number of flights to mainland China over the next two years and to expand its global presence.
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways’ budget airline, HK Express, aims to double the number of flights to mainland China over the next two years and to expand its global presence.
Tourism & Transport Forum Australia (TTF) is warning Australasian MICE businesses that it sees a downturn because of emissions and distances flown.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is celebrating 40 years of flying to and from South Australia’s capital city Adelaide - a route that according to the South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC) generates A$96 million in tourism expenditure for the state per year.
Australia's low-cost carrier Bonza has a new web site (www.flybonza.com), offering flights and holiday packages with bags, accommodation and optional travel insurance, car hire and airport transfers.
Jet charter company KlasJet - part of ACMI services company the Avia Solutions Group - has been okayed by aviation authorities in Saudi Arabia to operate B737 domestic and international flights.
The company already operates corporate air services from a base in Dubai and now is adding an aircraft that will be based in Saudi Arabia and operated by Horizon Aviation on an ACMI basis.
The European Commission (EC) has told Germany-based Lufthansa Group and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance it objects to the proposed merger between Lufthansa and Ita Airways, saying the deal would restrict competition on specific short-haul routes into and out of Italy as well as long-haul flights between Italy and the United States, Canada and Japan.
Effective 01 April 2024 onwards, business travellers to Germany will no longer be exempt from the accommodation tax.
Reservations made in Germany's commercial or private Berlin hotels and accommodation establishments after 31 March 2024 will be subject to a tax of five per cent of the net room rate.
Qantas budget subsidiary Jetstar has launched a Sydney-Busselton, Western Australia direct service, serving the Margaret River wine region for the first time.
Australia's Qantas is adding up to 260,000 additional B737 seats across three of its trans-Tasman routes over a 12-month period from October.
Virgin Australia is said to be 'frustrated' with ongoing certification delays to Boeing's 737 MAX 10 program and is considering switching some of its 25-strong MAX 10 order to the smaller 737 MAX 8 model instead.