Hong Kong Airlines will return to the long-haul market when it resumes non-stop flights to Vancouver and Gold Coast this week. They will be the full-service carrier’s first non-regional flights since 2020, when it suspended its North American routes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Gold Coast flights will begin on January 17, 2025, followed by Vancouver-bound flights on January 18.Â
Hong Kong Airlines Direct Flights to Vancouver & Gold Coast
Hong Kong Airlines’s direct flights to Vancouver will take off from January 18, 2025, and will be a year-round service. Flights will depart twice a week — on Tuesday and Saturday — and will be roughly 12 hours long. Vancouver was the carrier’s first North American destination in 2017, which the airline stopped flying to in February 2020 when it also suspended its Los Angeles service.
ROUTE | DEPARTURE TIME | ARRIVAL TIME |
Hong Kong-Vancouver | 10:10pm (Tuesday) | 6:10pm |
Hong Kong-Vancouver | 11:50pm (Saturday) | 7:50pm |
Vancouver Hong Kong | 1:50am | 7am (next-day arrival) |
Hong Kong-Gold Coast | 10pm | 8:55am (next-day arrival) |
Gold Coast-Hong Kong | 10:25am | 5:20pm |
The airline will also restart its non-stop flights to Gold Coast from January 17-February 15, 2025, after it stopped flying to the Australian holiday destination in 2018. The seasonal service will run four times a week — on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday — for the duration of the Chinese New Year season, and flying time be about nine hours. This will be the only direct connection between Hong Kong and Gold Coast, as other options have stops in Sydney and Melbourne.
More Long-haul Flights from Hong Kong
Hong Kong Airlines hopes to expand its network to include flights from the city to Toronto, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Last year, the carrier gave passengers more regional flight options out of Hong Kong with the addition of Saipan, Vientiane, Sendai, Chiang Mai, Xining, Taichung and Da Nang routes, as well as the resumption of flights to Kagoshima.
The territory’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific and its low-cost subsidiary HK Express also aim to connect Hong Kong with 100 destinations by the end of 2025. Cathay will add European and North American routes like Munich and Dallas Forth Worth and increase its flights to its current destinations this summer, while HK Express will begin operating flights to Sendai this month.
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