{"id":11597,"date":"2021-01-22T08:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3118840\/hong-kong-upstart-greater-bay-airlines-formally-applies"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:37:59","slug":"hong-kong-upstart-greater-bay-airlines-formally-applies-for-rights-to-operate-more-than-100-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/hong-kong-upstart-greater-bay-airlines-formally-applies-for-rights-to-operate-more-than-100-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong upstart Greater Bay Airlines formally applies for rights to operate more than 100 routes"},"content":{"rendered":"Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), the Hong Kong start-up vying to snatch a lucrative slice of top local carrier Cathay Pacific\u2019s business, has bid to secure the right to fly to more than 100 destinations across Asia \u2013 a major step towards making its first take-off a reality.The fledgling airline, headed by former top Cathay executive Algernon Yau Ying-wah, applied to the government for the rights to operate scheduled flights, according to a public filing gazetted on Friday.Company sources were\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3118840\/hong-kong-upstart-greater-bay-airlines-formally-applies\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Bay Airlines (GBA), the Hong Kong start-up vying to snatch a lucrative slice of top local carrier Cathay Pacific\u2019s business, has bid to secure the right to fly to more than 100 destinations across Asia \u2013 a major step towards making its first ta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11598,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}