Sunday 15 June 2014

HK Express inaugurates direct flights from Hong Kong to Ningbo, Busan and Nagoya

Report By : Gan Yung Chyan
                 / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



HK Express, Hong Kong's low-fare airline, is inaugurating direct flights from Hong Kong to Ningbo, Busan and Nagoya.

The first budget flight between Hong Kong and Ningbo begins on 31 July 2014.

The Ningbo budget flight schedules of HK Express are as follows:- departing from Hong Kong at 5.15 pm on Mondays and Saturdays, arriving in Ningbo at 7.25 pm on the same days, and departing from Hong Kong on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4.50 pm and touching down in Ningbo at 7 pm under flight UO1318. On the four days, flight UO1319 departs from Ningbo at 8.35 pm and arrives in Hong Kong at 10.55 pm.

HK Express will finalize the necessary formalities with the relevant Ningbo travel agents soon and train the agents before introducing fares on-line shortly.



Meanwhile, it goes well for HK Express' new Korean flights to Busan which will take off on 7 August at 10.20 am under flight UO1673, landing in Busan at 2.40 pm before taking off at 5.10 pm, arriving in Hong Kong at 7.35 pm under UO1674.

HK Express is also opening direct flights six-times a week to Nagoya from 25 September 2014, according to HK Express' Vice-Administrative Executive Officer Andrew Cowen. For the Hong Kong-Nagoya route, the low-cost carrier will introduce return special fares of 500 HK Dollars while a one-way fare starts from 160 HK Dollar.

HK Express' first Nagoya flight takes off from Hong Kong at 10.20 am on 25 Septmber, touching down in Nagoya at  3.10 pm under UO1655 before departing from Nagoya for Hong Kong at 4.30 pm, arriving in Hong Kong at 7.35 pm under UO1656.

HK Express currently has 8 Airbus A320 aircraft jets and aims to have 11 jets when it starts flying to Busan and Ningbo. Some of the aircraft still spot the previous livery of hkexpress.com. It currently flies to destinations including Penang, Phuket, Seoul-Incheon, Kota Kinabalu, Kunming, Taichung, Osaka, Tokyo-Haneda and Fukuoka..


A review on HK Express' Taichung flight in conjunction with ITE & MICE 2014 will follow soon.

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