TokyoTomo Travel Guide

Hong Kong Express (UO) announced it will start a twice-weekly service between Okinawa and Hong Kong from April 3, 2008. Following the first service to Japan, the Hong Kong-based airline will expand its scheduled service successively to five cities in Japan from the end of April: Okayama from April 26, Kagoshima from April 28, Hiroshima from May 1 and Nagoya from May 15, 2008.

A Boeing B737-800 will be put into service on these routes. Presently, the airline owns four aircraft of this type, to which it plans to add six more and the fleet size is expected to reach 10 by the end of 2008.

Prior to the inauguration of service to Okinawa in April, a sales office will be opened in Okinawa on March 3. Further, a liaison office will be opened in Tokyo which will oversee the start-up of scheduled flights between Hong Kong and various cities in Japan and charter operations to other regional cities including Sendai.

The start-up of the service to Japan by Hong Kong Express is based on the new Hong Kong/ Japan Open Skies Agreement which lifted the capacity restrictions on flights between Hong Kong and all Japanese cities except the Tokyo Metropolitan region.

Source: Travel Vision

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