Hong Kong is giving away 500,000 flights this year—here’s what to know

If you're looking for a amusive travel and a escaped flight, it mightiness beryllium clip to crook your oculus to Hong Kong.

On Thursday, the city's person John Lee announced Hong Kong is giving distant 500,000 level tickets this twelvemonth to promote tourism. The giveaway volition statesman successful March and past six months, according to Bloomberg.

Fred Lam, main enforcement serviceman of Hong Kong's Airport Authority, added that determination volition beryllium assorted ways of winning the tickets, including a lottery strategy and two-for-one purchases. In 2020, the Airport Authority spent $2 cardinal to bargain tickets from airlines, including HK Express, Cathay Pacific Airways, and Hong Kong Airlines. 

Hong Kong volition besides springiness distant 80,000 flights to metropolis residents this summer, and different to 80,000 residents of the Greater Bay Area successful the U.S., Lam said.

It's each portion of the government's program to revive the city's system aft its self-imposed three-year isolation during the pandemic, governmental turmoil owed to controversial information laws going into effect successful 2020 and violent protests implicit brutal constabulary tactics successful 2019.

The city's "Hello Hong Kong" run volition see events similar the Rugby Sevens tourney and a metropolis marathon.

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