With pandemic travel restrictions lifted, passenger numbers at Macao’s airport exceeded 750,000 in the first quarter of this year, according to an official statement cited in local media.
The figure is a year-on-year increase of 170 percent, the Macau International Airport Co. (CAM) says.
Visitors in the quarter arrived on a total of 6,900 flights, representing a year-on-year increase of 57 percent CAM added, attributing the surge mostly to traffic between Macao and mainland China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
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Although recovery is steady, passenger numbers and flight volumes only stand at 32 percent and 37.4 percent of what they were during the same period before the pandemic.
During the three years of Covid-19 restrictions, air passenger arrivals in Macao almost halved, from 1.17 million in 2020 to 600,000 in 2022.
Last week, Air China, the main shareholder in Air Macau, said cumulative losses suffered by the city’s flag carrier during the three years of the pandemic amounted to 2.89 billion patacas.
