Hong Kong Express expects to add widebody aircraft to fleet
Hong Kong Express Airways, part-owned by Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, plans to add widebody aircraft to its fleet eventually to make use of limited airport slots and allow for growth to longer-range destinations, its CE said Tuesday. The airline and sister carrier Hong Kong Airlines have been expanding rapidly in a challenge to Hong Kong's dominant airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, which last month reported its worst first-half loss in at least 20 years amid increased competition that lowered fares. "I think we will certainly progress to widebodies," HK Express CE Andrew Cowen said. "One solution to the slots constraints is to perhaps do fewer frequencies but with widebodies. Obviously widebodies would also allow us to go further afield." <br/>
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Hong Kong Express expects to add widebody aircraft to fleet
Hong Kong Express Airways, part-owned by Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, plans to add widebody aircraft to its fleet eventually to make use of limited airport slots and allow for growth to longer-range destinations, its CE said Tuesday. The airline and sister carrier Hong Kong Airlines have been expanding rapidly in a challenge to Hong Kong's dominant airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, which last month reported its worst first-half loss in at least 20 years amid increased competition that lowered fares. "I think we will certainly progress to widebodies," HK Express CE Andrew Cowen said. "One solution to the slots constraints is to perhaps do fewer frequencies but with widebodies. Obviously widebodies would also allow us to go further afield." <br/>
