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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09DEC24 2335Z | VHHH | RCTP | Old&Flabby | Airbus A330-300 (A333) | -657 ft/m | 485 nm | 01:10 | View | |
27OCT24 1459Z | VHHH | RCTP | Kaharia | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -223 ft/m | 505 nm | 01:15 | View | |
27OCT24 1455Z | VHHH | RCTP | Dougal McTavish | Boeing 737 MAX 8 (B38M) | -264 ft/m | 495 nm | 01:17 | View | |
26OCT24 2257Z | VHHH | RCTP | RecklessRay | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -215 ft/m | 540 nm | 01:22 | View | |
14OCT24 1546Z | VHHH | RCTP | ELR1-C (Elric) | Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) | -103 ft/m | 489 nm | 01:44 | View | |
28JUL24 0235Z | VHHH | RCTP | ProbiePete | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -250 ft/m | 435 nm | 01:29 | View | |
09JUL24 0537Z | VHHH | RCTP | Stirling M0ss | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -111 ft/m | 571 nm | 01:27 | View | |
20JUN24 0252Z | VHHH | RCTP | Greekazoid | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -176 ft/m | 546 nm | 01:22 | View | |
19JUN24 1830Z | VHHH | RCTP | BelBro | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -96 ft/m | 547 nm | 01:20 | View | |
17JUN24 1725Z | VHHH | RCTP | Carlo | Embraer 170/175 (E170) | -110 ft/m | 587 nm | 01:33 | View | |
10JUN24 0719Z | VHHH | RCTP | Obslynnx33 | Airbus A320 (A320) | -222 ft/m | 563 nm | 01:21 | View | |
07JUN24 0014Z | VHHH | RCTP | JackieJLM | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -390 ft/m | 503 nm | 00:55 | View | |
26MAY24 1005Z | VHHH | RCTP | Shaun Dale | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -146 ft/m | 510 nm | 01:13 | View | |
25MAY24 0045Z | VHHH | RCTP | ISidiou5 | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -127 ft/m | 497 nm | 01:42 | View | |
22MAY24 1607Z | VHHH | RCTP | Ironbird | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -132 ft/m | 743 nm | 01:31 | View | |
14MAY24 1608Z | VHHH | RCTP | Restoring 226 | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -379 ft/m | 443 nm | 01:31 | View | |
13MAY24 0103Z | VHHH | RCTP | Viperstrike95 | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -181 ft/m | 499 nm | 01:15 | View | |
12MAY24 2020Z | VHHH | RCTP | Tigershark 74 | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -394 ft/m | 435 nm | 01:09 | View | |
12MAY24 1837Z | VHHH | RCTP | Pappa_Razzi | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -188 ft/m | 572 nm | 01:32 | View | |
12MAY24 1313Z | VHHH | RCTP | Quasar Core | Airbus A300-600R (A306) | -185 ft/m | 522 nm | 01:14 | View |