The Moodie Davitt Report - Camille Bersola
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) served 5.7 million passengers in 2022, up by +318.4% on a troubled 2021 but still -92% down on pre-pandemic 2019 levels when the airport served 71.5 million passengers.
More encouragingly, a late-year improvement driven by Hong Kong’s easing and then scrapping of quarantine requirements, saw December passenger traffic surge +938.7% year-on-year to 1.6 million. While that equated to just 28.1% of December 2019 volumes (5.7 million –the same figure as the whole of 2022), the recent opening of the Hong Kong-Mainland China border augurs well for a strong and sustained recovery in 2023.
