First flight of new budget airline Oasis delayed indefinitely

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1. Wide of Hong Kong International Airport departure hall 2. Close-up of airport timetable 3. Passengers check in at counter 4. Tilt down of passengers at check-in counter 5. Wide of Oasis aircraft on tarmac 6. Wide of flight attendants standing for photo shooting 7. Photographers 8. Wide of ribbon cutting ceremony 9. Guests raising their champagne glasses 10. Stephen Miller, the chief executive officers of Oasis Hong Kong sitting on the sofa 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Miller, Chief Executive Officer of Oasis Hong Kong: "Our airline, Oasis, is going to concentrate on the long haul operation only, high utilisation of the aircraft, high productivity of the aircraft, high productivity of the people. So it is partly keeping costs down, but it's also partly keep productivity high. So those two items will make us more competitive." 12. Passenger passing through boarding gate 13. Staff welcoming passengers as they're about to board 14. Passengers line up for boarding 15. Wide pan of arrival hall at Hong Kong International Airport 16. Wide of passengers leaving arrival hall 17. Medium of passengers leaving arrival hall 18. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Vox Pop, passenger: "A budget airline, well I have not yet found out if it (the cancellation) has something to do with the small-size company failing to get approval or other reasons. If the authority has no confidence with a small sized company and are therefore not granting an approval, then I will lose confidence in the airline too." 19. Cutaway, media talking to person in arrival hall 20. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Vox Pop, passenger: "The in-flight service was fine, not bad. However no one could confirm whether the plane could take off, many passengers were a bit (inaudible) and dissatisfied as we had waited for five hours." 21. Wide of plane on tarmac 22. Close-up of plane 23. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Raymond Lee, Chairman of Oasis Airline: "We are not the only airline to encounter such problems. But at this period of time we have to reserve the rights to say nothing as we don't want to shift the responsibility to anyone. But we are clear that we had the approval and suddenly were told in the afternoon that there wasn't an approval. Therefore we had to make the best decision in these circumstances." 24. Various wides of passengers leaving arrival hall STORYLINE: In an embarrassing mishap, the inaugural flight of a much-publicised local budget airline was abandoned on Wednesday because it wasn't cleared to fly over Russian airspace. Officials at Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, however, insisted the delay of flight O8700 from Hong Kong to London's Gatwick Airport wasn't their fault. The flight was scheduled to depart Hong Kong at 0500 GMT but after a five-hour delay was finally cancelled. Oasis chairman Raymond Lee, who was on board, said the delay was due to a last-minute hold-up in approval to fly over Russian airspace. "We had the approval and suddenly were told in the afternoon that there wasn't an approval," he said adding, "therefore we had to make the best decision in these circumstance." Lee said the airline is seeking an explanation from senior Russian officials. In a statement, the airline said its paperwork was in order and its flight path over Russia had been approved. "We are clear that we had the approval and suddenly were told in the afternoon that there wasn't an approval," Raymond Lee, Chairman of Oasis Airline said. Russian aviation officials couldn't be immediately reached for comment, and phone calls to the Federal Air Navigation Service in Moscow rang unanswered on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department said it had not as yet received a flight plan from Oasis for a Thursday departure. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/765cb8742967ca29c8cc394066d87227 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork