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Hong Kong International Airport registered
year-on-year growth of 17% and 30.1% respectively, to 3.9 million
and 257,000 tonnes, in February 2010. Air traffic movements also
rose by 4.9% from the same month in 2009, to 22,270.
Benefiting from the CNY holidays, Hong Kong
resident travel surged by 45.3% and visitors by 17.5%
year-on-year. Combined January and February figures - which
balance out the seasonal impact of CNY - show an increase of 15.3%
in Hong Kong resident traffic and 9.2% in visitor numbers. During
the first two months, traffic to/ from South East Asia, Chinese
mainland, Taiwan and Japan all showed healthy growth.
On the cargo side, February’s imports jumped 28%
year-on-year while exports grew 44% and transshipments rose 8%.
Combined statistics for the first two months show that imports and
exports both increased by over 40%, while transhipments also grew
by more than 10%. Strong import and export growth was experienced
across all HKIA major markets.
"February’s
performance was encouraging as it was the first month since July
2008 that all three traffic figures recorded growth, fully
reflecting a continued recovery in the economy," said Stanley Hui Hon-chung,
Chief Executive Officer of the Airport Authority. "Aggregate
figures for January and February also showed across-the-board
increases. During those two months, the airport handled 7.9
million passengers, 558,000 tonnes of cargo and 45,730 flight
movements, which represented increases of 6.9%, 36.9% and 0.6%
respectively over the same period in 2009. Both passenger and
cargo traffic have returned to the pre-crisis levels in 2008,
although aircraft movements were still 5.7% below the first two
months of 2008. Based on these figures, we have confidence that
this growth trend will continue."
Mr Hui also
said that according to operating schedules the airlines have filed
with the Civil Aviation Department, flight movements during the
summer operating season will increase by about 15% over the same
season last year, indicating that the aviation industry is ramping
up flights to meet the anticipated market demand of the coming
months.
On a rolling 12-month basis, cargo throughput
increased slightly by 0.2% year-on-year to 3.5 million tonnes.
Passenger volume decreased by 3.0% to 46.6 million, and air
traffic movements recorded a decline of 6.2% to 279,755.
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