Cathay Pacific is poised to announce non-stop flights from Hong Kong to Cape Town, South Africa.
A year-round service to launch later this year will be announced soon cementing 2018 as one of the airline’s biggest years of expansion, pending approval from authorities.
Despite Cape Town having a robust regional economy as a major shipping port for trade, its historic landmarks make it popular for tourism. The flights to Hong Kong will be its first non-stop service to Asia in more than six years.
For now, no mainland Chinese carrier flies to the Mother City.
A non-stop flight from Hong Kong to Cape Town would take around 14 hours. Singapore Airlines flies to and from Cape Town, stopping in Johannesburg first, in a flight lasting 13 hours 55 minutes. It is the only Asian carrier with a flight to that destination at all.
