Air Hong Kong Limited was founded in 1986 by a group of businessmen operating out of Stansted airport in London with additional investment from Hong Kong. They commenced scheduled operations in 1989 with a Boeing 707-320C freighter. In the mid 90's they ran into finacial issues and were looking to make a deal with their aircraft leasor for a stake in the company when Cathay Pacific jumped in and bought a 75% stake in the company, keeping the operation running. Cathay Pacific also ran cargo operations out of Kai Tak and presumably thought that buying the competition at a bargann price made good sense. In 2002 Cathay Pacific bought the outstanding 25% stake of the company, so it was then a wholly owned subsidiary.Later in 2002 Cathay Pacific traded a 30% stake in the company to DHL for the right to handle their cargo operations in Asia, leading to the distnctive livery the aircraft wear today.
Air Hong Kong started out flying 707's, then traded up to 747's, which they intially flew out of Kai Tak then moved over to Chek Lap Kok when Kai Tak closed. They started out focused on a few long haul routes (to Brussels and Manchester, among other places) but later focused on Asian routes. Though they were flying 747's at the time Air Hong Kong was the launch customer for the Airbus A300-600RF freighter, the first of which was delivered in 2002. They traded in their 747's some time ago and now have an all Airbus A300 fleet.
Air Hong Kong began service flying to Europe and Dubai but focuesd their operations on Asia some years ago. At present The airline operates an express freight network to 13 destinations in nine countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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10DEC24 0118Z | RCTP | VHHH | Old&Flabby | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -585 ft/m | 448 nm | 01:09 | View | |
09NOV24 0233Z | RCTP | VHHH | Davi Pereira | Boeing 777-300ER (B77W) | -147 ft/m | 518 nm | 01:18 | View | |
07NOV24 0002Z | RCTP | VHHH | FierceWolf | Airbus A380-800 (A388) | -464 ft/m | 514 nm | 01:18 | View | |
25OCT24 2134Z | RCTP | VHHH | Kim_Snede65 | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -61 ft/m | 498 nm | 01:23 | View | |
08SEP24 1402Z | RCTP | VHHH | VAF342 LeChiffre | TBM 930 OEAMTC Air Ambul | -36 ft/m | 458 nm | 01:43 | View | |
03SEP24 2103Z | RCTP | VHHH | ELR1-C (Elric) | Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) | -45 ft/m | 436 nm | 01:30 | View | |
16AUG24 1621Z | RCTP | VHHH | Martin Chen | Boeing 777-300ER (B77W) | -308 ft/m | 435 nm | 01:52 | View | |
29JUL24 0231Z | RCTP | VHHH | ProbiePete | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -148 ft/m | 435 nm | 01:24 | View | |
16JUL24 1551Z | RCTP | VHHH | Stirling M0ss | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -141 ft/m | 643 nm | 01:51 | View | |
28JUN24 0544Z | RCTP | VHHH | Greekazoid | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -118 ft/m | 478 nm | 01:14 | View | |
19JUN24 2041Z | RCTP | VHHH | BelBro | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -208 ft/m | 473 nm | 01:09 | View | |
10JUN24 1023Z | RCTP | VHHH | Obslynnx33 | Airbus A320 (A320) | -125 ft/m | 482 nm | 01:17 | View | |
07JUN24 1014Z | RCTP | VHHH | JackieJLM | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -307 ft/m | 510 nm | 00:41 | View | |
01JUN24 1227Z | RCTP | VHHH | Ironbird | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -136 ft/m | 585 nm | 01:44 | View | |
14MAY24 1256Z | RCTP | VHHH | Restoring 226 | Hawker Hunter (HUNT) | -285 ft/m | 434 nm | 01:27 | View | |
14MAY24 1238Z | RCTP | VHHH | Blanche | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -226 ft/m | 474 nm | 01:40 | View | |
13MAY24 0814Z | RCTP | VHHH | MDA009 | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -186 ft/m | 473 nm | 01:18 | View | |
13MAY24 0237Z | RCTP | VHHH | Viperstrike95 | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -332 ft/m | 493 nm | 01:21 | View | |
12MAY24 2205Z | RCTP | VHHH | Tigershark 74 | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -386 ft/m | 435 nm | 01:29 | View | |
12MAY24 2014Z | RCTP | VHHH | Pappa_Razzi | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -214 ft/m | 498 nm | 01:20 | View |