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Devi Rajaram, 33, was among those in city state hoping to score one of 12500 tickets up for grabs by felt 'disappointed after the long wait'.

SINGAPORE: All 12500 free air tickets to Hong Kong were snapped up within an hour of Cathay Pacific launching its online giveaway in Singapore on Thursda.

Cathay Pacific's main website also experienced delays after the giveaway opened. Her own queue number was in the 80,000s. "Our website functioned well during the registration period. Cathay Pacific said that the results will be announced on Mar 20. "I find the entire process dubious. The first 12,500 entrants will win a free economy class round-trip air ticket to Hong Kong.

It was one of the questions you had to get right in order to qualify for the free tickets.

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The giveaway is part of a campaign launched in February to entice visitors back to the city after three years of COVID-19 isolation.

It started giving out tickets to residents of the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam on Wednesday. The giveaway will roll out progressively to residents from other Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Demand for the free airline tickets was so hot that flag carrier Cathay Pacific ended its giveaway for all 17,400 tickets allocated for Thailand residents in about 45 minutes on Wednesday, according to the [South China Morning Post.](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3211910/online-users-kept-waiting-hours-airline-website-hong-kong-ticket-giveaway-begins) While the wait was under a minute long about half an hour before the giveaway started, it jumped to 16 minutes just before the sign-up page opened at noon. I managed to get back into the waiting room after a few minutes, only to be told there were over 50,000 people ahead of me — putting my estimated wait time at over an hour. The page for the waiting room refreshed itself at 12:43 p.m. It started on March 1 in the Southeast Asian markets and is slated to later move onto other markets, such as mainland China and Northeast Asia. Winners will announced from March 17 to April 5. [Hong Kong Airlines](https://www.hongkongairlines.com/) also had to wait over two hours just to get into the website on Thursday, according to a message I saw on the airline's site. On Thursday, I experienced the ticket rush myself. Those interested need to apply for a free Cathay Pacific membership on its website and answer three quiz questions about Cathay Pacific correctly, according to SCMP. [Hong Kong is giving out half a million free flights](https://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-free-flights-tourists-across-globe-2023-2) to the city — and the campaign is so popular that Cathay Pacific had to park people in a virtual waiting room before they could even enter the giveaway.

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Social media users complained of long online queues to register, and an AFP reporter encountered wait times of more than two hours on the Cathay Pacific website. Hong Kong once had one of the globe’s busiest and best-connected airports, but travel came to a virtual standstill when the city imposed strict travel restrictions and quarantine requirements as part of China’s zero-Covid doctrine. On Wednesday, Hong Kong became one of the last places in the world to

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