Changi Airport Group will welcome Hong Kong Airlines
to its growing network of airlines later this month.
Hong Kong Airlines will operate both
freighter and passenger services to Singapore from 14 January 2011 and 15 January
2011 respectively. It is the second carrier to operate passenger services to Changi
Airport and the first to commence freighter services to Singapore this year.
Hong Kong Airlines will operate a daily passenger service on Airbus A332 aircraft (in a
two-class configuration) as well as four-weekly freighter services on Airbus A332F
aircraft.
The freighter service, with a capacity of 64 tonnes, will operate on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. With the addition of Hong Kong Airlines, the
Singapore and Hong Kong route will be served by some 270 passenger flights and 50
freighter flights each week.
In the first 11 months of 2010, passenger traffic between Singapore and Hong Kong rose
more than 24% to 2.55 million, compared with the year before. During the same period,
Flight Number Route STD STA Aircraft
Type
Days of Ops
HX751
(passenger)
Hong Kong-
Singapore
1150hr 1535hr A332
Daily
HX752
(passenger)
Singapore-
Hong Kong
1640hr 2015hr A332 Daily
HX9701
(freighter)
Hong Kong-
Singapore
0800hr 1145hr A332F Tuesdays,
Wednesdays,
Fridays and
Sundays
HX9702
(freighter)
Singapore-
Hong Kong
1315hr 1700hr A332F Tuesdays,
Wednesdays,
Fridays and
Sundays
Media Bulletin cargo throughput on the same route rose 16%, with some 157,000 tonnes moved. Hong
Kong is one of Changi’s top five routes for both passenger and cargo traffic.
With the addition of Hong Kong Airlines, Changi Airport now serves 102 airlines operating
more than 5,200 weekly scheduled flights connecting Singapore to over 200 cities in 60
countries and territories.
