The Airports Council International Asia-Pacific & Middle East (ACI APAC & MID), the trade group representing over 600 airports across 44 countries and territories, today released its Travel Retail Study in the Post-Pandemic Era, revealing a fundamental shift in airport retail dynamics. The study points out that younger travelers are now driving spend, while passenger behaviour, rather than sheer traffic volumes, has become the defining factor of airport travel retail performance.
Brisbane Airport (BNE) has boosted capacity as passenger numbers hit fresh records with Queensland on track for a bumper school holiday period.
Airport International Group announced that Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) has welcomed 2,536,484 passengers (PAX) until May 2022 - marking a 200.5% surge and 23.4% drop against 2021 and 2019 figures, respectively.
International traffic recovery at Malaysia Airports’ local network of airports gets a further boost with the addition of one new foreign carrier and the recommencement of five others last month. Lanmei Airlines, a low-cost carrier from Cambodia launched its inaugural weekly flight connecting Phnom Penh (PNH) – Kuala Lumpur (KUL), utilising the Airbus A320 aircraft. It is the third airline, after Malaysia Airlines (MH) and AirAsia (AK) to serve this route.
Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) today announced the traffic figures of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for May 2022. During the month, HKIA handled 170,000 passengers, representing a year-on-year increase of 186.1%, although passenger volume remained significantly lower than the pre-pandemic levels. Cargo throughput and flight movements recorded 365,000 tonnes and 10,440, respectively, representing decreases of 9.7% and 4.0% compared to the same month in 2021.
Kansai Airports today announced its consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, posting operating revenues of 66.4 billion yen, operating loss of 33.2 billion yen, ordinary loss of 42.6 billion yen and net loss of 30.2 billion yen.
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (Malaysia Airports or the Group) successfully concluded its 23rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) today, with all 5 Ordinary Resolutions and one Special Resolution tabled duly approved by its shareholders. The global airport operator continues to show strong resiliency during the pandemic in FY2021 by achieving positive earnings before tax, interest, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of RM220.3 million, an increase of over 100% from FY2020. It also recorded improved FY2021 net operating cash generation of RM271.1 million.
More than 700,000 people flew through Queensland Airports Limited’s (QAL) four ports in April – the highest number since January 2020. The 707,862 people who flew through Gold Coast, Townsville, Mount Isa and Longreach airports is just 1.4 per cent less than the amount who travelled through in April 2019 – suggesting the airports have almost returned to pre-COVID-19 passenger volumes.
The Malaysia Airports Group has reported EBITDA of RM186.9 million for its financial period ended 31 March 2022 (1Q22), a significant improvement compared to the negative RM16.2 million recorded over the same period last year (1Q21). The significant improvement in Group EBITDA was largely in line with the traffic recovery for both of the Group’s operations for Malaysia and Turkey.
The return of American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, announced today has cemented Auckland Airport’s title as the Australasian airport with the most non-stop connections to the United States and Canada.
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