Qantas pushes back Hong Kong flights to January 2023

Qantas is the latest airline to reset its hopes for a return to Hong Kong, following another schedule shuffle for the Sydney-Hong Kong route.

The Qantas website now lists Monday January 30, 2023 as the carrier’s first direct flight between Sydney and Hong Kong, scrapping an earmarked November 7 return for QF127/QF128, while Melbourne-Hong Kong is off the books until March 25, 2023.

Those dates are of course subject to change, especially given reports of Hong Kong aiming to reopen to the world with quarantine-free travel by November 2023.

While Cathay Pacific maintains a skeleton schedule from Australia, the airline is steadily bringing back more aircraft from storage in Australia’s Northern Territory.