Hainan Airlines launches non-stop flight to Apia on 28 May 2023

 Report, image by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

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Hainan Airlines launches non-stop scheduled flight from Haikou to Apia, the capital of Samoa, in the Pacific, on 28 May 2023. It is the first Asian airline to operate scheduled flight to Samoa, a country with regional routes to Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Fiji,Tonga, American Samoa and Honolulu.

On 28 May 2023, according to FlightRadar24, Hainan Airlines flight HU435 departs from Haikou for Apia at 2.30 am, touches down in Apia at 6.45 pm before leaving Apia for Haikou at 10.25 pm and arriving in Haikou at 4.46 am on 29 May 2023 under flight HU436.

The intended scheduled flight timings for HU435 and HU436 are as follows:-

Flight HU435 takes off from Haikou for Apia at 2.10 am, touches down in Apia at 7.10 pm before departing from Apia for Haikou at 10.10 pm and landing in Haikou at 5 am under flight HU436.

Hainan Airlines flies to Apia with its 787-9 Dreamliner on Saturdays and lands in Haikou on Sundays. Passengers from Apia can connect to Hainan Airlines' flights in Haikou for onward flights to Changi, Suvarnabhumi, Narita, Kansai, Phnom Penh and many domestic airports of China.