HKIA Continues To See Growth In Passenger Trips And Aircraft Movements
HONGKONG Boosted by the increased demand over the Chinese New Year CNY holiday Hong Kong International Airport HKIA handled 4 million passengers and 24295 flight movements in February representing a yearonyear growth of 2.0 and 9.2 respectively. However cargo tonnage experienced a 5.9 drop at 242000 tonnes in the month.
Stanley Hui Honchung Chief Executive Officer of Airport Authority Hong Kong said “The negative growth in cargo tonnage was mainly due to the seasonal impact of CNY. The combined cargo volume for the first two months of the year showed a yearonyear growth of 3.1 reaching 575000 tonnes. This was driven by the strong performance of import and transshipment. Strong momentum continued with the North America market as it saw doubledigit yearonyear growth in the same period.”
As for the passenger market the traffic growth in February was largely driven by Hong Kong resident travel during the holiday. The aggregate figure for January and February registered a yearonyear increase of 6.0 reaching 8.3 million. Passenger traffic to/ from South East Asia and the Chinese Mainland performed particularly well during this period. Meanwhile the combined flight movements of the past two months also reached 51705 a corresponding rise of 13.1.
Mr Hui added “Despite the slower start to the year we are confident that the prospects of the aviation market remain positive this year. We are also delighted to see more new airlines launching air services to HKIA. These new services provide passengers with a greater variety of flight choices as well as strengthening HKIA’s international and regional aviation hub status.”
In January Indonesia AirAsia launched its services to/ from Medan which is a new destination for the airport. Another new airline South East Asian Airlines is due to inaugurate flights to Clark in the Philippines this month.
On a rolling 12month basis HKIA handled 51.4 million passengers and 4.1 million tonnes of cargo an increase of 10.1 and 18.6 over the corresponding period last year. Flight movements also registered a growth of 11.8 reaching 312530.
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