On March 25, 2020, Emirates announced that they were going to suspend all flights until further notice due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Hong Kong was one of many airports around the world that lost one of their biggest operators, but now Emirates has slowly started flying again, and Hong Kong is on the list of airports that they will be serving.
Keep on reading!The traffic statistics for Hong Kong International Airport May 2020 has been released, and I am sure nobody is surprised to hear that again the numbers are down 99.4% compared to May 2019, just like the numbers for April.
It was announced a couple of days ago that starting June 1st, Hong Kong Airport will again open up for transit passengers. While the restrictions were not initially published, we now know what some of those will be.
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I am sure it comes as no surprise to anyone that passenger numbers at Hong Kong Airport is way down in April compared to last year.
This year in April there were only 32.000 passengers traveling through Hong Kong International Airport, down from 6.491.000 last year.
Flight movements also took a knock, but not quite as severe, mostly thanks to cargo flights. Total movements at the airport in April 2020 was 9.445, down 73.5% from 35.666 the year before.
This one has kind of slipped past me, I was looking for the April numbers, and realized I had not updated the March numbers yet.
As expected, the numbers of people and airplanes using Hong Kong Airport is severely down in March compared to the year before, with all the travel restrictions that are in force.
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Listening to the ongoing press conference by Mrs Carrie Lam, it is now confirmed that Hong Kong will ban all tourist, including transit passengers, for 2 weeks. In addition, all residents returning to Hong Kong will have to home quarantine for 2 weeks, including travelers coming from Macau and Taiwan.
According to South China Morning Post , Hong Kong is to ban all tourists, including transit passengers.
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Cathay has just release the following press statement on their website:
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Hong Kong Express, Hong Kongs low cost operator who was purchased last year by Cathay Pacific is the first Hong Kong based airline to halt operations amid the COVID19 outbreak.
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It might not come as a surprise to many, and now it has been confirmed. Effective Thursday, March 19th, all travellers arriving in Hong Kong from a foreign country will be placed under home quarantine.
In the last week there has been 50 new cases of COVID19 in Hong Kong, but only 7 of those were locally infected, the rest were imported cases.
The new restrictions will not apply to arrivals from mainland China, Macau or Taiwan.
