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HKIA Soars to New Heights: January 2025 Air Traffic Report Unveiled

The following is a summary of the provisional civil international air traffic statistics for Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for January 2025, as provided in the official data release. The report covers passenger numbers, cargo handled, and flight movements, with comparisons to January 2024, the period since April 2024, and the past 12 months. All figures are rounded, and percentage changes reflect the difference from the same period in the previous year.

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HKIA’s December 2024 Air Traffic Report: Passenger and Cargo Growth Takes Flight

The following is a detailed summary of the provisional civil international air traffic statistics for Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for December 2024, as provided in the official data release. This report focuses on passenger numbers, cargo handled, and flight movements, with comparisons to December 2023, the period since April 2024, and the past 12 months. All figures are rounded, and percentage changes reflect the difference from the same period in the previous year.

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Quick Review – Hong Kong Express Airbus A320- Hong Kong – Da Nang – Hong Kong, September 2023

HK Express is the low cost operator of Cathay Pacific, and based out of Hong Kong. They operate a fleet of A320-family aircraft, and all their routes are short or medium-short haul (I believe 4.5 hours is the longest.) This quick review is a part of my 3 day getaway to Da Nang in September 2023, which you can read about here.

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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in July 2022

When it comes to aviation, numbers tell a story of their own. The provisional civil international air traffic statistics for July 2022 at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) are no exception. With jaw-dropping percentage changes in passenger numbers, cargo handling, and flight movements, this month’s statistics raise eyebrows and invite closer examination.

Let’s take a deep dive into the numbers and analyze the remarkable trends in HKIA’s air traffic for July 2022.

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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in July 2021

The Civil International Air Traffic Statistics for HKIA for July 2021 was as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 15.5% from 96.000 to 110.000 (first time above 100.000 since March 2020)
  • Cargo tonnes handeles was up 4.6% from 373.000 to 419.000
  • Passenger flight movements were up 50.9% from 3.621 to 5.465
  • Cargo flights movements were up 3.3% from 5.968 to 6.165
  • Non-revenue flights were down 22.5% from 284 to 220
  • Total flights movements were up 20% from 9.873 to 11.850
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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA in June 2021

The civil international air traffic statistics at HKIA for June 2021 compared to 2020 were as follows:

  • Passenger numbers were up 40.1% from 59.000 to 83.000
  • Cargo tonnes handled were up 11.5% from 358.000 to 399.000
  • Passenger flight movements were up 29.7% from 3716 to 4820
  • Cargo flight movements were up 1.9% from 5914 to 6025
  • Non-revenue flights were down 38.4% from 333 to 205
  • Total air traffic movements were up 10.9% from 9963 to 11050
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Civil International Air Traffic Statistics at HKIA December 2020

Traffic at Hong Kong International Airport was almost the same in December 2020 as it was in November the same year.

  • The number of passengers was 90.000, up 9.000 from the month before, but down from 5.716.000 in December 2019
  • The number of tonnes of cargo handled was 443.000, the same as in December 2019
  • Flight movements were down 62.8% from 33.999 in 2019 to 12.650 in 2020, and the same as in November 2020.

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Air Traffic Statistics for Hong Kong, November 2020

The numbers for November 2020 seems to indicate an increase in traffic compared to previous months, although again way down compared to a year ago.

  • Passenger numbers are down from 5.027.000 in 2019 to only 81.000 in 2020. That is up 2.000 from October
  • Tonnes of cargo handled is 436.000, down 13.000 from the year before. Compared to October it is up 32.000
  • Flight movements were 12.565, down 61.4% from 2019 when there were 32.528, but up over 15% from October, from 10.880.

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Air Traffic Statistics for Hong Kong, October 2020

In my effort to catch up, it is now time for the October numbers to be shared as well. I do expect that those as well are severely down from last year, but I also believe there will be a slight increase from September again.

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Cathay Pacific offers early retirement to older pilots

Cathay Pacific has projected that they have lost around 10 billion Hong Kong Dollars in the first 6 months of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

So far Cathay has not laid off any pilots, and they have historically never done so before either, but as pilot costs is a big expense for them, they are now offering some of their senior pilots aged 50 and above early retirement.

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