Hong Kong Express adds flights to Bangkok

High load factor on the twice-daily Hong Kong-Bangkok service has led Hong Kong Express Airways to increase the frequency to 16 flights per week from late-July.

The airline has also appointed Bangkok-based Federation Transport its new sales agent. Federation Transport manager, Mr Pornlert Kanjananiyot, said the twice-daily flight, using Boeing737-800, received high traffic demand from passengers in mainland China travelling via Hong Kong to Bangkok, which prompted the airline to add two charter flights per week on the route.

He said the flight recorded a high satisfactory performance at 80 to 90 per cent in load factor, even under the circumstances of rocketing oil prices and economy slowdown.

However, Mr Pornlert said the airline had no plan to introduce any new service to other destination in Thailand this year and low demand would continue to stall its decision to resume the twice-weekly Hong Kong-Chiang Mai flight, which was suspended from end-March.