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| Cytat: | Moscow grounds Oasis on first day
The Standard, Thursday, October 26, 2006
Chester Yungandagencies
The first flight of local long-haul budget carrier Oasis Hong Kong Airlines was aborted Wednesday before the aircraft even left its berth at Hong Kong International Airport.
Oasis was forced to cancel its inaugural cut-price flight when it was denied permission to fly through Russian airspace.
Some 300 passengers, including Oasis chairman Raymond Lee Cheuk- man and chief executive Stephen Miller, were stuck in one of its two Boeing 747 jumbo jets for nearly six hours awaiting Russian approval.
"It's extremely unfortunate and we are very disappointed," Oasis commercial director Ken Chad said. "We are doing all we can to resolve the problem."
He said the carrier hoped to fly to London's Gatwick Airport at 1pm today and would seek alternative routes if it failed to win Russian approval.
"We are in talks with the Russian authorities," Chad said. "We paid for the overfly rights and we got the approval code, and yet at the last minute they held us up. We have not had any explanation."
The airline said in a statement it will offer a HK$500 transportation fee to all local residents involved, free accommodation and food for foreign travelers, as well as a free flight voucher.
However, several passengers were heard demanding more compensation from the airline, saying their holiday plans had been ruined.
A man surnamed Li said he was planning to visit London and Cambridge with six family members on what was originally a five-day trip.
He said Oasis' instructi
ons were unclear and its organization "a little chaotic." He criticized the company for not disclosing the real reason for the holdup until late in the day.
He would return for the planned departure today, but if there were more problems he would switch airlines.
A Civil Aviation Department spokesman confirmed Oasis had not been given an overflight permit from Russia.
"According to international practices, airlines have to apply for such permits themselves instead of through the Civil Aviation Department," he said.
Secretary for Economic Development and Labour Stephen Ip Shu-kwan said the SAR government was liaising with the Russian consul-general, hoping to help Oasis obtain the approval code from authorities as soon as possible.
Two other Europe-bound flights from Hong Kong were delayed for about an hour due to heavy air traffic over Europe, the Civil Aviation Department spokesman said.
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, which analysts see as a potential threat to Cathay Pacific Airways and other airlines on the busy route, was packed with passengers who paid just HK$1,000, excluding taxes and surcharges, for a one-way economy-class seat.
Oasis said the fare pertains to its first month of operation and will then be available for 10 percent of seats until October 2007. The carrier charges HK$6,600 to fly business class, excluding taxes and surcharges.
More than 1.3 million passengers traveled between Hong Kong and London Heathrow in the year ended March 2005, making it Hong Kong's seventh busiest air route, according to the Civil Aviation Department.
Oasis would have been the first carrier to fly to Gatwick from Hong Kong.
Unlike other rivals which operate daily direct flights, Oasis aims to fly four times a week, with plans for daily flights from November 1.
Lee, the chairman, said Oasis has attracted an average of 500 bookings daily since reservations began in September.
He said the company expects ticket sales to reach more than 55,000 in the first quarter and 190,000 in its first year.
The airline aims to break even within 12 to 18 months.
"Our vision is to give Hong Kong high-quality, low-fare and direct flight services," Lee said.
Oasis said it hopes ticket prices will remain 30-40 percent lower than those of other major airlines after its promotional period.
In its 360-seat flights, there are about 60 business class seats and 300 in economy. Both economy and business classes have personal seat-back TVs with a choice of up to 16 video entertainment channels offering films likely to have already been seen by most passengers.
They include last year's Batman Begins and Ocean's 12 from 2004.
Lee said the airline wants to increase its fleet to five planes in its first year of operation, rising to 25 planes in five years.
Oasis plans to increase its routes by two to three more, including a service to Oakland in San Francisco which is set to begin in first-quarter 2007.
Lee said the airline has obtained licenses to fly to Chicago, Milan, Berlin and Cologne/Bonn.
It is filing applications to operate to Vancouver, Toronto, Zurich, Paris, New York and Los Angeles.
Lee said the carrier is in talks to join other budget airlines for connections to the rest of Europe and North America. It has opened talks with UK-based easyJet and Ryanair, as well as Germanwings, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue.
The airline has also established partnerships with Cargolux and Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited to offer cargo services but passenger flights will remain its core service. |
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