Departing Hong Kong residents fly their pets out of city on private jets

Financial Times ^ | 1-19-22 | Thomas Hale and Primrose Riordan

[SJackson]

Owners pay up to $26,000 for chartered flights as Covid rules limit commercial airline services

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Hong Kongers leaving the increasingly isolated city are chartering private jets for their pets — the only way many can take their animals with them as pandemic restrictions squeeze freight space on commercial flights.

With the city’s zero-Covid regime leading to soaring cargo rates and flight cancellations, people are grouping together to use private jets at a cost of about HK$200,000 ($25,665) for each owner with their pet, companies and individuals say.

“There’s a huge demand,” said Chris Phillips, pet and medical charter manager at Air Charter Service, a private jet broker. “People want to get their pets back [to their home countries], their cats and their dogs and their rabbits, and they just can’t get them back via commercial routes.”

Hong Kong authorities this month banned passenger flights from eight countries as part of the city’s tough coronavirus elimination policies, leading to a wave of flight cancellations as airline companies struggle to keep up with changing regulations.

The territory’s strict quarantine regime is leading some expatriates to abandon the city while increasing numbers of local citizens are joining immigration schemes set up by the UK, Australia and Canada in the wake of political unrest in the Chinese territory in 2019.

Hong Kong’s efforts to stamp out the virus have extended to pets...

[SJackson]

Pets aside, I can think of other reasons Hong Kong might be losing population

[Fai Mao]

The fall of the Greatest city on Earth continues.

[Democrat = party of treason]

GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[ridesthemiles]

Call Kalitta Cargo airlines

THEY flew Americans out of Wuhan when USA commercial AL pilots refused to do so.

Kalitta took at least 3 planeloads in to March AFB.

[Vigilanteman]

In a previous life, we did business with a lot of Hong Kong companies. This was when China and Great Britain signed the special administrative region status which was supposed to be honored for 50 years.

We aren't even into year 30.

But nobody trusts the ChiComs less than their fellow Chinese. Some of the top Hong Kong people just left during that time to favored foreign destinations. Canada was one of them because if you had money and skillsets, three years or less was standard to earn citizenship. Vancouver and Toronto both have very large Chinatowns.

[Freedom56v2]

Thanks for bring this up...

Why this is not an issue is beyond me :(