Airports across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East are preparing for nearly 7% annual air travel growth over the next 25 years. To support sustainable development, the 2nd ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East Regional Assembly in New Delhi adopted a resolution promoting the optimisation of current capacity and the expansion of new infrastructure.
Macau International Airport (MIA) recorded more than 750,000 passengers traffic in the first quarter of 2023, representing year-on-year growth of 1.7 times. The flight movements recorded year-on-year increase of 57% with over 6,900 movements in the first quarter of 2023.
Three public holidays overlapping with both the New Zealand and Australian end of term break will see a busy few weeks at Auckland Airport. Bookended by Easter and Anzac Day, many families are jetting away before the cooler weather sets in with more than 800,000 people travelling across the school holidays. Auckland Airport Chief Customer Officer, Scott Tasker, said the opportunity to extend the school holidays with Good Friday and Anzac Day means passenger numbers are predicted to be just over 80% of 2019 levels across both the international and domestic terminals.
Brisbane Airport is predicting up to 15,000 passengers to pass through its International Terminal tomorrow (Sunday), representing a new post-COVID record, with international services boosted by 77% compared to this time last year.
International operations resumed at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on March 26, the first day on which 2023 summer flight schedule came into effective. In the morning, a ceremony was held at SHA to celebrate that international flights as well as flights to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan were restarted. MU721, departed at 0822AM from Hongqiao International Airport for Hong Kong, was the first one witnessing the international operations recommenced.
Gold Coast Airport has recorded its busiest February since pre-covid with more than 429,000 passengers travelling through the terminal last month.
The total passenger traffic for the 3 airports reached 70% recovery from February 2019. The international passenger traffic is making further recovery, similarly to last month, especially with foreign passengers (53% from February 2019), and its recovery rate reached 46% from February 2019.
Kansai Airports is delighted to announce that the number of international scheduled flights per week for summer 2023 is expected to be 869*1 excluding international passengers flights to China (55% of 2019*2, during September peak), supported by a full-scale international passenger traffic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in East Asia and Southeast Asia and a continued strong international cargo traffic. The number of international cargo flights will be 211 per week, the second highest on record for the summer schedule.
The sky is the limit, they say, and for the aviation sector in India, this is true. The airline industry never expected to witness such robust growth after the pandemic. But with more routes and airports opening, it could only get better. This increases the country’s investment opportunities while simultaneously increasing job prospects. This is nation-building at its best, something that the Adani Group believes in and has been steadfastly working towards.
Over 5000 additional passengers are expected during this week for the season opener of the Repco Supercars Championship, the Thrifty Newcastle 500 Supercars event coming up 10 to 12 March 2023.
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