Hong Kong Express Airways Be Approved To Operate Routes To Beijing, Shanghai
January 28, 2008 |
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The Hong Kong Express Airways has been approved by the Civil Aviation Department of Hong Kong to be the third designated airlines in Hong Kong to operate the routes from Hong Kong to Beijing and Shanghai after Dragonair and Cathay Pacific.
According to new Memo signed between Hong Kong and China's Mainland in last December, each of seven airports in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Dalian and Chengdu is allowed to respectively designate three passenger transportation airlines and two cargo airlines to operate their flights to Hong Kong since Summer or Autumn of 2008; since winter of 2008 and spring of 2009, there can be four passenger transportation airlines and three cargo airlines.
Hong Kong Express Airways currently owns four Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft and plans to increase to 10 same types of aircraft by the end of 2008.
HNA Group holds 45% shares of Hong Kong Express Airways and the group said that they will launch 30 newly purchased aircraft including twenty Boeing 737 and ten Boeing 787 aircraft in Hong Kong.




































