Hong Kong Express to Launch to Kota Kinabalu

Hong Kong Express is to expand its network into Malaysia with the launch of a Hong Kong – Kota Kinabalu service. The twice weekly flight will commence from April 12 and will be operated using a Boeing 737-800.

The airline currently serves just four markets outside of China and Hong Kong – Osaka Kansai, Okinawa and Sapporo in Japan and Manila in the Philippines, while parent Hong Kong Airlines serves seven destinations in Japan, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The Hong Kong – Kota Kinabalu route is already served by AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines on a daily basis and Dragonair on a five times weekly schedule.

Around 177,000 O&D passengers flew between the two destinations in the past year with AirAsia dominating the traffic (40 per cent) thanks, in a big part, to its low-fares which at an average of $126 each way are almost half the cost of those offered by its rivals.

Schedule:

UO715 HKG1205 – 1505BKI 738 25
UO716 BKI1550 – 1835HKG 738 25

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.