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Hong Kong Airlines to increase fleet by 30% in 2024
November 24th 2023
Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) said it was on track to expand its current fleet of 21 aircraft by 30% by the end of 2024, which was expected to lead to a doubling of overall passenger traffic. Read More » HKA chair, Jevey Zhang, said the outlook for the year ahead was "truly optimistic", given the airline had eight times the number of flight sectors and 38 times the number of passengers carried through the first nine months of 2023 compared with the same months in 2022. "We are very pleased to see that our flight operations have returned to pre-pandemic levels before year-end, surpassing our initial forecast of a full recovery by mid-2024," Zhang said. "We also anticipate that our average passenger load factor to rebound to 85% by 2023.” HKA's fleet consisted of A320 narrowbodies and A330 family aircraft.
