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IATA says Hong Kong has lost its position as a global aviation hub due to China’s ultra-strict “dynamic zero COVID” policy.
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ANA All Nippon Airways will increase international flights and cabin staff numbers to meet an anticipated jump in demand when Japan abolishes Covid border controls in October 2022.

Cathay Pacific welcomes the Hong Kong SAR Government’s decision to remove the hotel quarantine arrangement. The carrier intends to add more than 200 pairs of passenger flights in October 2022 and will resume daily flights to Tokyo Haneda from 01 November and four-times-weekly flights to Sapporo from 01 December.
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Hong Kong Airlines announced its latest service restoration to Japan, scheduled from mid-October 2022, with flights to Okinawa, Osaka Kansai, Sapporo New Chitose, and Tokyo Haneda.
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Singapore Airlines Group will reinstate flights and increase services to more key destinations across its network in the coming weeks, including points in key East Asian markets. The SIA Group’s passenger network is projected to cover 110 destinations in 36 countries and territories on 01 November 2022.
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TUI Group has agreed to fully repay the Silent Participation I of nominally €400 million and the remaining warrant bond of nominally €60 million euros until the end of 2023. In addition, TUI intends to further significantly reduce the KfW credit lines.
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SAS is forced to repay €9 million that the airline received in pandemic support, after the requirement for working hours was not met.

Irish lessor SMBC Aviation Capital held talks with Russian airlines which aim to use state funds to buy some of the more than 400 aircraft stranded in Russia. Any proposal would need EU approval. SMBC AC was offered US$644.2 million for 17 aircraft leased to Aeroflot, and was approached by representatives of NordStar and S7 Airlines to discuss “potential claim solutions.”

Russia’s aviation sector will do everything it can to avoid the “total cannibalisation” of aircraft for spare parts, as the impact of sanctions bites.
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Japan will now allow travellers from Hong Kong to fly into seven Japanese airports, up from four previously, following protests from the Chinese government. Expect Covid-19 cases on the rise in the coming weeks!
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New Belgian legislation for incoming flights from China, based upon the European Union decision:

In Dutch:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/be ... staatsblad

In French:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/ar ... 2/moniteur

Summary - translated by Google Translate:

Article 1. For the purposes of this Decree, "test certificate" means a digital EU-COVID certificate or any other certificate in Dutch, French, German or English, which indicates that a NAAT test (Nucleic Acid Amplification Test ) has been obtained negative result was performed in an official laboratory no more than 48 hours before departure to the Belgian laboratory, or that a RAT test (Rapid Antigen Test), included in the common and updated list of rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 19 as established on the basis of the Council Recommendation of 21 January 2021 on a common framework for the use and validation of rapid antigen tests and the mutual recognition of COVID-19 test results in the EU, not more than 48 hours before departure to carried out on the Belgian territory by a health professional and the result of which is negative.
Art. 2. Every traveler, from the age of 12, who travels directly from the People's Republic of China to Belgium by air transport, must be provided with a test certificate.
Aircrew members who have been in the territory of the People's Republic of China for less than 12 hours are exempt from the agreement to pass a test certificate referred to in the first paragraph.
The public or private air carrier is checked to check that the passengers referred to in the first paragraph, followed by boarding, are in possession of a test certificate. In the absence of a test certificate, the carrier is kept under control.
Upon arrival at the Belgian metropolis, the traveler is checked again by the airport operator and Saniport whether he is in possession of this test certificate.
In the absence of the required test certificate or in the event of false, misleading or incomplete information in this certificate, the traveler who does not have the Belgian nationality and who does not have a main residence in Belgium may, where appropriate, be activated by the competent authorities by the introduction Article 14 of the Schengen Borders Code of Article 43 of the Act of 15 December 1980 on the entry to the territory, residence, settlement and expulsion of foreign nationals.
Art. 3. The measures provided for in this decision shall apply until 31 January 2023.

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Asiana Airlines has completed restoring an A330 “preighter” to its original passenger state, the last of the lot. Korean Air has already restored 14 of the 16 passenger planes converted to cargo planes.

Irish lessor Avolon forecasts the aviation sector is set to thrive in 2023 with global traffic to reach pre-pandemic levels by June 2023. Asia will drive growth in 2023, helped by the recent reopening in China. A profit of US$4.7 billion is forecast for 2023 as recovery continues.

SWISS will retrieve the remaining three A320s and three A330s from storage in Jordan during 2023.
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TUI Group aims to strengthen its balance sheet to pay off all state aid, having reached an agreement with the Economic Stabilisation Fund of Germany on the conditions for a full repayment. The agreement also allows for a further substantial repayment of KfW (Germany) credit lines.
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