Dallas-Fort Worth travelers who want to take high tea overlooking Victoria Harbour at the Peninsula Hong Kong or chow down on dim sum have a new way to get to the bustling Asian metropolis next spring.

Cathay Pacific Airways will launch nonstop flights between Hong Kong and Dallas-Fort Worth on April 24, 2025 with departures on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The airline plans to fly an Airbus A350-1000 on the almost 17-hour flight. When it launches, it will be the longest flight in the airline's network.

The Dallas-Fort Worth route is Cathay’s first addition to the U.S. since the pandemic. The airline’s senior vice-president of the Americas, Chris van den Hooven, described it in a statement as a “major milestone in the airline’s growth within North America.”

American Airlines, Dallas-Fort Worth’s hometown carrier and a Cathay partner, flew the Hong Kong route from 2014 through 2020 when it suspended service due to the pandemic. American permanently cut the route in late 2021 amid the slow reopening of Asian borders and delays taking delivery of new Boeing airplanes.

American fliers will also have easy connections to the new Cathay flight via the airline’s mega Dallas-Fort Worth hub.

In addition to the new route, Cathay is adding more flights to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York JFK, and San Francisco next summer. All five cities will see at least daily service to Hong Kong with the latter three seeing thrice daily flights.

Cathay has returned to all but two of its pre-pandemic U.S. destinations: Seattle-Tacoma and Washington Dulles remain suspended indefinitely.