The website Australian Business Traveller is reporting Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific will launch direct flights between Adelaide/Hong Kong and Cairns/Hong Kong in 2014. Flights between Brisbane and Hong Kong, and Melbourne and Hong Kong will move to a non-stop status.
The website Australian Business Traveller is reporting Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific will launch direct flights between Adelaide/Hong Kong and Cairns/Hong Kong in 2014. Flights between Brisbane and Hong Kong, and Melbourne and Hong Kong will move to a non-stop status.
The new flight schedule will take effect from March 30 2014.
The new direct Adelaide Hong Kong service will be four flights a week and replaces the daily service through Melbourne. The Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss, has advised the inbound service will arrive in Adelaide between 5 and 6 am in the morning during the noise curfew "shoulder" period which is permitted under relevant legislation.
The direct Cairns Hong Kong service will be four times a week.
The non stop flights to Cairns and Adelaide will increase the number of seats flown into and out of Australia by Cathay Pacific by 14 per cent.
http://www.ausbt.com.au/cathay-pacific-direct-flights-from-adelaide-cairns-to-hong-kong
http://www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/wt/releases/2013/December/wt048_2013.aspx for more information.