British Airways remains committed to the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets despite reducing its service to the city and halting flights to Beijing, its customer chief has said, stressing that the carrier will revisit its schedules once geopolitical issues change.
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In an interview with the Post, chief customer officer Calum Laming emphasised that the airline had no intention of scaling back its presence in Hong Kong and on the mainland despite reduced services due to Russian airspace restrictions.
“Currently, the Beijing route is on pause and obviously with a number of geopolitical issues that are happening at the moment, particularly with the closure of certain airspaces, it makes our flights a lot longer,” he said.
“It’s not that we are withdrawing from the region or anything like that. This region remains of paramount importance to us.
“We, of course, keep a close eye on world events as we see hopefully things change and we’ll be able to revisit our network … When the geopolitical issues lift, we will, of course, revisit it.”
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The UK flag carrier last August announced that it would be pausing direct flights between London and Beijing from late October because of a Russian airspace ban.