Qantas trims HK flights

Australian carrier Qantas is canceling some return flights from Australia to Hong Kong this month and next and is also reducing capacity to Asia by 15 percent until end May.

Business Traveller Asia-Pacific says the impacted Hong Kong flights include some return flights on the airline’s Brisbane-Hong Kong route (QF97/98). These flights will be canceled between February 23 and March 29. It also includes some of the airline’s Melbourne-Hong Kong services (QF 29/30). These flights will be canceled between March 2 and March 25.

''It's important to keep in mind that mainland China represents about 2 percent of our total international network. But we're seeing flow-on demand weakness on some other Asian routes – Hong Kong in particular, but also Singapore. And to a lesser extent, Japan,'' Qantas Group chief executive Alan Joyce said.