{"id":231570,"date":"2025-06-08T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hong-kong-airlines-flights-competitive-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:30:28","slug":"hong-kong-airlines-eyes-flights-on-competitive-route-to-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231570","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Airlines Eyes Flights On Competitive Route To Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Airlines is set to launch a direct service between Hong Kong and Melbourne<\/a><\/span>, Australia, creating competition on the two incumbent carriers already serving the city pair, Qantas and Cathay Pacific. The airline has secured traffic rights for the route and will announce further schedule details later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This would mark the third international carrier on the route between HKG and MEL, and the first new entrant since Virgin Australia exited the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,695,3614,513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-hong-kong","category-hong-kong-airlines","category-melbourne-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t