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Air Seychelles To Launch SEZ-AUH-HKG

YLWbased From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2006, 677 posts, RR: 5
Posted (4 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3140 times:

Schedule as follow:

HM086 SEZ1540 – 2010AUH2140 – 0940+1HKG 332 247
HM087 HKG1855 – 2325AUH0200+1 – 0635+1SEZ 332 135

I wonder why through AUH? I'm pretty sure HM is not gonna get a whole lot of traffic between HKG and AUH, anyone knows the reason behind such routing? AFAIK, all other African based airlines have routed themselves through BKK to HKG.

Source: http://www.airseychelles.com/en/news/index.php?aid=95 (English)
Source: http://www.from852.com/1/post/2012/12/-dec-31st-2012.html (Traditional Chinese)

Hong Kong is not China. Not better or worse, just different.

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nickofatlanta From Australia, joined May 2000, 1457 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (4 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3109 times:

The flight AUH-HKG will no doubt be in partnership with Etihad which owns 40% of Air Seychelles.

kaitak From Ireland, joined Aug 1999, 11952 posts, RR: 37
Reply 2, posted (4 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3097 times:

It seems a very odd routing; I presume they have done a codeshare with EY (which does not yet fly to HKG) and this is why they've gone via AUH; I'd be more concerned about getting pax from HKG to fly to SEZ via AUH, which seems like a very indirect routing.

Still, good luck to them!

cy319 From Greece, joined Apr 2006, 391 posts, RR: 13
Reply 3, posted (4 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 2902 times:

Despite the stop in AUH, HM / EY will offer the quickest flight time (on both directions) on HKG-SEZ-HKG compared to EK and QR.

wanna be travel buddies ,sex buddies .. or both ?

cloudyapple From Hong Kong, joined Jul 2005, 2425 posts, RR: 9
Reply 4, posted (4 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2697 times:

This has been in the schedules since 12 Oct.

Quoting nickofatlanta (Reply 1):
The flight AUH-HKG will no doubt be in partnership with Etihad which owns 40% of Air Seychelles.

It is a codeshare flight EY4121/4122 - HKG-AUH is bookable.

Quoting kaitak (Reply 2):
codeshare with EY (which does not yet fly to HKG)

Yes they do already, sort of - EY928/929 - freighters chartered from others.

A310/A319/20/21/A332/3/A343/6/A388/B732/5/7/8/B742/S/4/B752/B763/B772/3/W/E145/J41/MD11/83/90

Azure From France, joined Dec 2012, 203 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (4 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2697 times:

Quoting nickofatlanta (Reply 1):
The flight AUH-HKG will no doubt be in partnership with Etihad which owns 40% of Air Seychelles.

Quoting kaitak (Reply 2):
I presume they have done a codeshare with EY (which does not yet fly to HKG)

Quoting cy319 (Reply 3):
Despite the stop in AUH, HM / EY will offer the quickest flight time (on both directions) on HKG-SEZ-HKG compared to EK and QR.

There is no direct flight between HKG and SEZ (yet ?)
The number of visitors from HKG to the Seychelles doubled between 2010 and 2012.

Now on a side note, I remember BA in the 80s used to fly between JNB and HKG (and maybe NRT) with several stops including CMB and either SEZ or MRU, I do not recall exactly.. Can someone help here ?

Regards from NCE

viasa From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 1813 posts, RR: 7
Reply 6, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1985 times:

ch-aviation report that there were planes for this route long ago (31-10-2012).... http://www.ch-aviation.ch/portal/new...-with-etihad-airways#disqus_thread

A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9073 posts, RR: 13
Reply 7, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1446 times:

I haven't seen any new photos of the Air Seychelles A330-200 since the first photo came out. Has this aircraft not been flying all that time (since August 2012). See below photo:

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gardermoen From Australia, joined Jul 1999, 1518 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (4 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1056 times:

Azure, yes BA did fly JNB-SEZ-CMB-HKG weekly with a 747-200, and I recall the service ended around 1986. At HKG, there was a flight number changed and it went on to do HKG-TYO-ANC-LHR.

Very exotic!

Azure From France, joined Dec 2012, 203 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (4 months 2 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 774 times:

Thanks Gardermoen for your answer ! This reassures me about my memory

I would have loved to fly this route, quite exotic indeed !

Regards from NCE

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