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We often think that the Asian cities with the best connections from Europe are probably Hong Kong, Shanghai or Tokyo. Although these cities offer many direct air routes to Europe, it is in fact Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo that the best connections are to be found. South East Asia had the largest number of connections to the old continent<\/strong>. Until the Covid-19 pandemic decimated the networks.<\/p>\n

Bangkok<\/strong> was even the champion of routes to Europe with more than twenty airlines. The network operated by Thai Airways International extended before the crisis of Madrid<\/a> in Stockholm andAthens<\/a> in Paris. All the major European airlines were offering...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We often think that the Asian cities with the best connections from Europe are probably Hong Kong, Shanghai or Tokyo. Although these cities offer many direct air routes to Europe, it is in fact Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo that the best connections are to be found. South East Asia had the largest number of connections to the old continent<\/strong>. Until the Covid-19 pandemic decimated the networks.<\/p>\n

Bangkok<\/strong> was even the champion of routes to Europe with more than twenty airlines. The network operated by Thai Airways International extended before the crisis of Madrid<\/a> in Stockholm andAthens<\/a> to Paris. All the major European airlines also offered flights to Bangkok. The latest to do so was Poland's LOT<\/strong> present in Singapore since 2019. Some, like Lufthansa, Finnair, Aeroflot<\/strong> or Turkish Airlines<\/strong> landed several times a day in the Thai capital.<\/p>\n

Paris-Ho Chi Minh City-Sydney possible in the future...<\/span><\/h3>\n

Still in the region, Singapore Airlines<\/strong> was another airline with a dense network of routes to Europe. With its low-cost subsidiary Scoot<\/strong>the group proposed to routes to 16 European cities by summer 2019<\/strong>. On the other hand, the presence of the following companies was more marginal Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Royal Brunei <\/strong>and Vietnam Airlines<\/strong>. They offered between two and five destinations to Europe. The restructuring of Malaysia Airlines in the early 2010s saw the airline retain only its one stopover in Paris. London<\/strong>. This compares with a network of a dozen cities - including Paris - in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n