A Bad Day for Oasis Hong Kong Airlines

Oct 26th, 2006 | By Jared Blank

Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, the new budget carrier offering $128 tickets from London to Hong Kong, was supposed to have its inaugural flight yesterday. I say "supposed to" because after having passengers sit on the plane at the gate for 5 (yes 5) hours, the airline learned that Russian authorities never granted flyover rights to the airline. Oops. For its part, the airline says that that isn’t their fault. Which doesn’t matter at all if you’re a passenger who just sat on the runway for 5 hours. The carrier put passengers up in a hotel and offered less than $100 in compensation.

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oj November 1st, 2006 10:31 pm :
i fly them in a week to hong kong. will let you know what i think. do post anymore news on them if you see any. thanks.
Richard December 12th, 2006 8:56 am :
I have just returned from hong kong with oasis and
it was truly a excelent experierence and flight, i have traveled with other airlines and i must say i enjoyed this the most, the price and the serice i was given were unbeatable. overall very impressed and would fly again with oasis tomorrow.

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