The Finet Hong Kong News

AA announced that the cargo of the Hong Kong International Airport in November amounted to 374,000 tonnes, an increase of 9.3% year-on-year, the highest single-month high, mainly due to outbound traffic increased 11% year-on-year, of which between North America and Southeast Asia freight performance than other major regions prominent. Period, passenger traffic and aircraft movements, respectively, year-on-year growth of 5.5% and 6.6%, respectively, to 4.6 million passengers and 29,700 vehicles.

 

Passenger traffic growth was mainly driven by the number of local residents traveling abroad, about the number increased by 12% compared to the same month last year, the past, particularly to Southeast Asia and mainland China Passenger ideal.

 

In addition, the first 11 months of this year, passenger traffic rose 4.8% year-on-year to 51.5 million passengers, cargo traffic rose 1.7% to 370 million tonnes. Aircraft taking off and landing capacity of 320,900 vehicles, up 5.4% year-on-year.

 

AA Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui said he was glad to see the amount of air traffic growth is very robust, especially in cargo traffic in the global economic environment remains difficult despite four consecutive months continued to rise. He remain cautiously optimistic about the potential of future freight volume and expected the airport cargo growth trend will continue. Christmas and New Year holidays, rising to meet seasonal demand for flights, airlines additional 250 passenger flights to popular tourist destinations including Taipei, Seoul and Southeast. (M)