Other HK Express flights from Hong Kong to Bangkok depart between 13:30 and 16:55, while the return departures typically leave the Thai city between 10:25 and 19:45.
The scheduled block time of the itinerary is three hours, according to data from aviation analytics company Cirium’s Diio Mi airline planning tool.
Cirium’s Diio Mi showed that there are164 weekly departures from Hong Kong to Bangkok in June, or15 more than during the same month in2024. Other airlines operating the route include Cathay Pacific(50 weekly departures), Hong Kong Airlines(33 weekly departures), Thai International Airways(THAI,28 weekly departures), Greater Bay Airlines(15 weekly departures), Emirates(fifth- freedom flight,daily departures), and Ethiopian Airlines(fifth-freedom flight, three weekly departures).
Emirates has a fifth-freedom flight that goes from Dubai to Bangkok and then to Hong Kong before returning to Bangkok and then to Dubai on flight EK384/EK385. Meanwhile, Ethiopian Airlines flight ET608 originates at Addis Ababa Bole Airport(ADD), flies to Bangkok, and then goes to Hong Kong. From there, flight ET609 returns to Bangkok and then flies backto Ethiopia.
The travel data company OAG said that in2024,the air corridor betweenBangkokandHongKongwasoneofthebusies tinternationalroutesintheworld.FlightsfromtheThaicitytotheSpecialAdministrativeRegion(SAR)had4 .2millionseatsthroughouttheyear,makingittheseventh-busies trouteglobally.Incomparison,thebusies tinternationalroute ,fromHongKongtoTaiwanTaoyuanInternationalAirport(TPE),had6 .7millionseatsin2024 ,accordingtoOAG.
InadditiontotheextradailyflightonflightstoBangkok,HKE xpresshassignificantlyexpandedit sflightscheduleduringtheupcomingsummerseason.AccordingtoCirium sDiioMi,theairlineadded104weeklyflightsinJuneversusJune2024,resultingincapacity ,measuredinavailableseatkilometers(ASK),growingby52 .6%year-on-year(YoY).DestinationsthattheairlinedidnotflytoinJune2024butwilldosooinJuneofthisyearincludePhúQuốcInternationalAirport(PQC,double-dailyflight),PenangInternationalAirport(PEN,dailyflights),CheongjuInternationalAirport(CJJ,fourweeklyflights),andDaeguInternationalAirport(TAE ,threeweeklyflights).HKE xpressannouncedthelattertwodestinationsonMarch14,promotingthatflightstothetwoSouthKoreanairportswillenableit scustomerstodiscoverrichculturalheritage stunninglandscapes iconicK-dramafilmingspotsincentralandsouthernKorea.Cirium sDiioMishowedthatnootherairlinesflydirectlybetweenHongKongCheongjuandDaeguenablingHKE xpresstobethesolecarrierflyingtothetwodestinationsatthemoment