Recession brings good news and bad news for travelers planning to visit Hong Kong. Bad news is of course, everyone wants to cut on expenditures as job security becomes more shaky and pink slips could be served anytime soon. The good news is that Hong Kong recession means lower occupancy rates on hotels and discounted deals on airfares. That should inspire some of us to pursue plans to come over.As a guide to prospect travelers, here are budget airlines serving Hong Kong from various cities. There may be many different meanings of budget airlines, listed here are cheaper alternatives to more prestigious airlines.
Air Asia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bangkok Airways
Koh Samui, Bangkok
Cebu Pacific
Manila, Cebu, Davao, Clark (all in the Philippines)
Dragonair
Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Kunming, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai, Shenyang, Xiamen, Xian (all in China); Fukuoka, Japan; Hanoi, Vietnam; Manila, Philippines; Kathmandu, Nepal; Busan, S Korea; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia; Kaoshiung, Taiwan; Phuket, Thailand
Hong Kong Express Airways
Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Harbin, Ningbo, Okinawa, Phuket, Sapporo, Shanghai-Pudong, Xi'an (all in China); Denpasar/Bali, Indonesia; Taichung, Taiwan; Kathmandu, Nepal; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Manila, Philippines; Bangkok, Thailand
Jetstar Asia Airways
Singapore
Thai AirAsia
Bangkok, Thailand
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4 comments:
I just bought a ticket from London, return, for £350 (3850HKD) flying Air New Zealand.
Feels like a good price.
Will be there in 3 weeks!
Exciting.
Air New Zealand is pretty good and thats not a bad price. However tickets for Hong Kong have been going very cheap lately ive seen them for £280 (3175HKD) with Quantas about a month ago.
Ah, maybe.
My schedule was pretty tight,
and I only bought them 3 weeks in advance of the flight.
Couldn't get them any cheaper
(and every day I waited looking for a bargain, the £350 ones got more and more scarce)
But yeah.
I fly in two weeks,
come back in July!
Hopefully I can meet up with some web developers, see what employment opportunities there are in HK.
I got flights from Sydney to Macau with Viva Macau in August for A$466. Pretty good I thought. Now just want to find a good deal on accommodation, any ideas for a good rate on 4 or 5 star?
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