Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines is offering HK$20 (US$2.56) round-trip tickets for select destinations to celebrate its second anniversary, with Bangkok being the promotion’s opening salvo.
The airline earlier said the limited-time special offer would be rolled out from Tuesday to Thursday and next Monday to Wednesday, with a daily quota of 200 passengers. Travellers are only allowed to purchase one ticket each.
“Greater Bay Airlines (GBA) just launched the ‘2nd Anniversary Mega Sale’ limited promotion as an anniversary celebration and a token of gratitude to customers for their continued support,” the company said on Tuesday.
“Starting [from Tuesday] until 31 July, customers can purchase a round-trip ticket for only HK$20. The quota for this promotion is 200 per day.”
The promotion will not include fuel charges and relevant taxes, with passengers required to depart from Hong Kong and prohibited from changing the route. They are also not allowed to transfer tickets to other people.
The airline is expected to reveal the routes with the discounted tickets at 10am on the selected days, and announce a promotion code at 12pm in the comments section of the carrier’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Prospective passengers could then use the code to purchase discounted tickets.
The first destination that the airline announced on the first day of the event was Bangkok.
The offer includes a free 20kg (44lbs) checked and 7kg carry-on allowance, with passengers required to schedule their travel between August 18 and December 18.
The carrier launch was once hindered due to concerns from other airlines, inquiries by the city’s Air Transport Licensing Authority and the Covid-19 pandemic. The launch was postponed from the fourth quarter of 2021 to July 2022.
The airline currently operates in seven destinations: Taipei, Tokyo’s Narita Airport, Osaka’s Kansai Airport, Seoul, Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, Manila and Haikou, the capital city of Hainan province.
On June 1, the carrier halted its direct flights to Singapore, just about a month after it took off on April 26.
It also suspended its services to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport in February, eight months after the launch in July last year.
The airline has been reportedly considering launching regular flights from Hong Kong to the Japanese city of Sendai as early as this autumn. The establishment of new routes to Sapporo and the South Korean island of Jeju is also under way.
