Originally Posted by
brunos
Hong Kong has a lot of expats and foreign permanent residents. Lots of British for obvious historical reasons, but also French, Italians, ...
They have EU passports so not affected by travel restrictions except possibly quarantine. Lots of family or spouse and kids flying back to Europe and will return to HK by summer end or earlier.
I flew from HK on BA32 a week ago. 7 F pax. I did not venture into the rest of the plane, but few business pax. However the Y checking line at airport was quite long. And there were transit pax. I would guess at least half full in Y.
That is higher than I would have expected and I guess the BA service is currently daily which CX is not (though I think they are increasing to daily LHR-HKG soon).......
However, if things get locked down a bit more and cases are on the rise again I think we can expect the BA31/32 to drop from daily unless it really is just covered in terms of cost from the cargo perspective......
FD.