Hong Kong Resumes Transit and Transfer Operations: Transit and transfer of passengers by business jet resumed at Hong Kong International Airport (VHHH) on June 1.
Aircraft operators are responsible for ensuring that the transit passengers will be accepted at the final destinations before flying to VHHH as the no-entry restriction for non-residents from overseas remains unchanged.
The Hong Kong Airport Authority is requesting that operators adhere to the following precautionary measures for passengers and crew:
All arriving passengers must have gone through body temperature screening before boarding the flight and passengers with a body temperature above normal will not be allowed to board
Passengers must undertake health declarations before boarding
Operators shall only accept check-in and boarding of transfer passengers who will be accepted for entry at their final destination as non-residents will not be permitted entry to Hong Kong
Measures shall be implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19 such as passengers being required to wear masks and sanitizers being provided for their use
Passengers are also required to wear face masks covering the nose and mouth on arrival and at all times during their time at HKIA
Passengers must be reminded to sanitize their hands and disinfect their shoes on sanitizing mats when disembarking
Transfer and transit passengers must proceed to the aircraft directly to minimize the time spent in other areas
Aircraft operators must make the necessary arrangements to segregate the seating and boarding of transfer and transit passengers from passengers departing at HKIA
Effective from July 29, travelers who were in Kazakhstan or the United States of America within 14 days prior to their trip to Hong Kong are required to provide additional documentation.
From July 25, travellers who have been in the following countries over the past 14 days before their arrival in Hong Kong are required to provide additional documentation:
Bangladesh
India
Indonesia
Nepal
Pakistan
The Philippines
South Africa
For support with your flight operations to Hong Kong, contact UAS
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Mitch Launius
Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
Dudley King
President and Founder, FlightBridge
Dudley is the Founder and President of FlightBridge, which he established in 2011 and has been focused on technology solutions for the private aviation industry since 2006. Since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1988, he has worked with an array of companies listed anywhere from VentureWire to the Fortune 100. A rare blend of executive, entrepreneur, and consultant, Dudley’s executive roles have included acting CIO positions for several companies and tech advisory services to CEOs trying to rebuild their technology organizations or looking for an external, professional point of view. Highly skilled at deeply understanding his customer’s business challenges and drawing from a long and varied experience in information technology services, Dudley excels at designing technology solutions to solve their problems.
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Global Medical Director, Aviation Health, Medaire
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