Hong Kong international airport will handle 71.5 million passengers and 419,730 aircraft movements in 2019, the airport authority Hong Kong announced today. Compared with 2018, the airport's passenger traffic and aircraft movements decreased by 4.2% and 1.9% respectively, while the overall cargo volume decreased by 6.1% year-on-year to 4.8 million tonnes.

Although business environment full of challenge, the Hong Kong international airport to continue with excellent service to win more awards, included in the "TTG travel awards 2019" maintained "travel" the hall of fame, also in the Air Cargo News "during" the Cargo airline awards "awarded" Cargo hub 2019 "award, and was awarded with" global best catering airport "award from Skytrax.

Hong Kong international airport, the vast network expansion in years, a new navigation of 17 points, including Beijing daxing international airport, bolger Arab, Dover chase ward, doncaster, guwahati, hefei, Istanbul ataturk airport, jieyang, labuan island, Nagasaki, niigata, rich countries, lombok, yangzhou, yekaterinburg and yinchuan above or on the island.

In December 2019, hkia handled 33,990 aircraft movements, a year-on-year decrease of 8.4%, with passenger throughput down 12.5% to 5.7 million and cargo throughput down slightly 1% from December 2018 to 443,000 tonnes.

Passenger traffic continued to be affected by the weak performance of Hong Kong tourism in December 2019, with passenger traffic to mainland China and southeast Asia showing the most significant declines in the previous month. However, both transit/transit passengers and Hong Kong residents registered strong growth, up 14 per cent and 9 per cent respectively.

Export cargo volumes rose 3 per cent year-on-year in December 2019, although import and re-export shipments remained weak. Exports to Europe, India and Japan rose the most among the major trading regions.

"We have had a very challenging 2019 and I would like to express my sincere thanks to our 78,000 airport staff for their dedicated service, especially in difficult circumstances, to ensure a safe and smooth journey for our passengers," said ms Christine cheung, aa's airport operations executive director.

She added: "looking ahead, we will continue to upgrade our airport facilities to deliver an even better airport experience. The terminal 1 extension will open in 2019 and the east concourse food court will be refurbished. The terminal 1 upgrading project will continue, including the enhancement of the boarding gate, and the extension of the skyline corridor and car park 4 will soon open. Hkia will continue to focus on providing customer-focused facilities to deliver a vibrant, world-class airport experience.

Source: civil aviation resources network