March 18, 2022
The carrier, which intends to compete against the financial centre’s dominant airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, was granted a licence last month
Hong Kong startup Greater Bay Airlines has scaled back its initial growth ambitions due to tight pandemic-related quarantine restrictions and has yet to set a date for its first commercial flights, its chief executive said on Friday.
The carrier, which intends to compete against the financial centre’s dominant airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, was granted a licence last month to operate regular flights.
The second of three Boeing 737-800s leased from China’s ICBC Leasing arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
However, chief executive Algernon Yau said requirements for two weeks of hotel quarantine on arrival to the city would need to relax before Greater Bay would commit to a launch date and its first routes.
“I think we would need around three months in advance,” he said in a phone interview of the…