In support of Hong Kong Tourism Board’s (HKTB) Hello Hong Kong campaign to welcome tourists back to the city, flag carrier Cathay Pacific is giving away 80,000 round-trip air tickets to Hong Kong.
This Cathay Pacific promotion is open to South-east Asian residents who are also airline members, with activities to be rolled out in phases, beginning with Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines on March 1, 2 and 3, 2023 respectively, and then Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia in stages two weeks later.
Cathay Pacific’s ticket giveaway joins Airport Authority Hong Kong’s (AAHK) World of Winners campaign, which puts 500,000 free tickets to Hong Kong up for grabs. This is open to markets around the world.
To participate, Cathay Pacific members will need to visit the campaign website, sign in with their membership details, and answer three questions correctly.
Dominic Perret, Cathay Pacific’s regional general manager for Southeast Asia, said the campaign would boost Hong Kong’s destination promotions in the region.
Vivian Cheung, Chief Operation Officer of AAHK, said: “As part of the relief package for Hong Kong’s aviation industry during the pandemic, AAHK provided liquidity support to the home-based carriers in 2020 by sponsoring air tickets in advance. The air tickets will be used to promote traffic recovery when the pandemic subsides.
“Hong Kong has opened up and we are eager to welcome visitors from different parts of the world. Various new services and facilities are ready at HKIA (Hong Kong International Airport) and we are looking forward to providing passengers a brand new airport experience.”
Also new is chef Ashley Breneman, who began her career studying at Le Cordon Bleu culinary institute and has worked for numerous celebrity chefs, including Gordon Ramsay on the hit show MasterChef. She is now the executive chef at Certified Angus Beef. She will be on the July 9 sailing aboard Norwegian Encore to Alaska.
Scoot will begin resuming services to and from China, and will be ramping up flight frequencies across its network to destinations such as Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia.
Scoot will progressively increase its total flights to China from 14-times weekly to 26-times weekly by stepping up flight frequencies to seven of its existing points – Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Tianjin and Zhengzhou.
In April, flights to Haikou, Ningbo and Xi’an will resume, bringing the total number of weekly flights to China to 42-times weekly. Services to Nanning and Shenyang will restart in May, totalling 57-times weekly flights to China by the end of June.
For other destinations, flight frequencies to Athens will increase from two-times to four-times weekly and from 10-times to 12-times weekly for Perth.
Services to Sapporo via Taipei will also increase from three-times to four-times weekly and flight frequencies to Tokyo via Taipei will now be 12-times weekly. The airline will fly to Langkawi seven-times weekly and to Manado four-times weekly.
Scoot services to the Gold Coast will be suspended after July 17 – customers with existing bookings will be notified of their options.