Royal Jordanian to operate Amman-Hong Kong flights starting next year

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President/CEO Samer Majali said that at a first stage, RJ will fly three times weekly in order to service the active commercial movement between the two countries. The service will have a great impact on businessmen and tourists, and will stimulate relations between Jordan and China in all fields of interest. Hong Kong is a major international economic centre and a magnet for businessmen from all over the world.

Majali added that RJ's decision to add Hong Kong to its route map follows the airline's membership in the oneworld airline alliance which joins among its members Cathay Pacific and Dragonair, the Cathay Pacific group member. Dragonair will join oneworld on November 1 this year. With the addition of Hong Kong, the airline will fly to 55 destinations worldwide.

Majali mentioned that RJ passengers from Amman to Hong Kong will be able to continue their journey to other 19 cities in China served by Dragonair, which operates 400 weekly flights on its domestic route network departing from Hong Kong. RJ frequent flyers will be able to earn and redeem mileage awards on the sectors of the flight between Amman and their final destinations in China.

The president also voiced expectations of increased demand on travel between Jordan and China after connecting Amman and Hong Kong with three weekly flights via Bangkok, to which RJ operates daily flights in the winter and five direct weekly flights in the summer. He pointed out that the newly refurbished Airbus A310s will service the route.

Royal Jordanian flight will depart from Amman at 12:55 am Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and will arrive in Hong Kong at 7:00 pm. It will depart from Hong Kong to Bangkok and Amman at 8:30 pm and reach Amman at 4:00 am. The journey between Bangkok and Hong Kong lasts 2:45 hours.

Hong Kong is the world's eleventh largest trading location; its economy is dominated by services, which account for over 90% of its gross domestic product. Together with Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, Hong Kong is known as one of the Four Asian Tigers. Hong Kong maintains a highly capitalist economy built on a free market policy, low taxation and no intervention on the part of the government. It is an important centre for international finance and trade, with the greatest concentration of corporate headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hong Kong encompasses a collection of 262 islands and peninsulas in the South China Sea and spreads out over 1,100 square kilometers. Its population reaches around seven million. Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and, for nearly half the year, tends toward temperate. The average temperature in the coldest month, January, is 16°C while the average temperature in the hottest month, July, is 29°C.