I haven't heard of any HKG disinfection requirements, only PVG. FAs can work 16+ hours so a 6-hour ground time at PVG is not a problem. Pilots were the issue. Once you go above ~8 hours, you need an extra pilot, and DL did not have a 3rd ready at ICN that day, while UA routinely had that buffer.

HKGov banned CX YYZ for 2 weeks for carrying too many positive passengers. This should've been good news for AC. But with the nature of omicron, HKG is probably too high risk for AC especially with incompetent GAs. Being too strict, get sued by passengers who lost C$7k in non-refundable hotel booking. Being too lax, get banned by HKGov. Chinese New Year traffic is drying up (you have to arrive HKG by Jan 10 to be let out by Jan 31), and any returning passengers can be flown first by ANA (leaving HK with a Tokyo connection is a lot easier in terms of COVID rules than arriving HK).

I was booked on AC854 YYZ-LHR at 18:30 on Jan 30. Notified a few days ago that this flight is cancelled so they moved me to AC856 at 20:30. Notified again yesterday that AC856 now departs at 22:10.

Further to @HkCaGu's posts about AC to HKG

AC 7 from Jan 2 is on this list



See AC route and dates on page 4 of this chart

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Rouge vs mainline to Florida
 

For Jan and some of Feb most YYZ to Florida routes are now rouge equipment changed from mainline and some large jets
For some of Feb and March not yet rouge and still
some mid day 787’s would it be correct to assume those will all be changed to rouge as the weeks progress ? Even the mainline 321-200’s ?
I had booked some flights for early Feb and they were all changed to rouge - similar times or cancelled and automatically rebooked on a flight as close as possible but my March flights are still showing as mainline

YOW-VVR morning non-stop stopped Jan 21 restarts Feb 25.

Wow, I wonder why AC also canceled YYZ-HKG. Have crew layover ICN 2-3 days not viable?

My travel agent just advised this morning, our flight from HKG to YVR on 9 Feb has been cancelled. We were told it has been rescheduled to 9 MAR. Anyone knows the exact reason for something this dramatic?

@MikeAlphaTango

See posts 15, 17 and 19 in this thread

Got it, thanks.
It does not make sense to me that the airlines got banned for carrying to many infected passengers.
If they had followed all procedures and checked all documents prescribed by the governments, why should they be penalized by the stealthy nature of the virus?

I know I am in the 0.01% affected here, but I hate the YVR-YYD schedule ... in winter I have to show up the day before hand and hang around for an extra night +/- day (thank god they have an excellent brewery and brunch place in town). In summer, same bloody thing, though now twice daily in theory. This was not the old twice daily scheduling and has killed several "days off". :mad:

"Process specification" is a minimum level of not-horribleness. "End result specification" requires providers of a solution to actually stand behind it, while encouraging and allowing innovation.

HKG has banned all passenger / cargo flights from: Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S. from Jan 8th-Jan 20th, citing these as the worst areas of omicron spread.
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​​​​​​Flights from these countries are also prohibited from using the 3rd country transit (crew member change) workaround.

link to SCMP article

Guessing AC is banking on the ban being extended through late winter

Air Canada has pulled all passengers flights to and from Hong Kong from now till March 1.
This news comes even before the news that Hong Kong government announces that it has banned all flights from Canada to Hong Kong for the next two weeks.

Carfield

YOW-MCO taking a break... not operating Jan.22-Feb. 25