HKIA Traffic Figures Improve in July

Air traffic at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) further stabilised in July, with year-on-year drops in passenger throughput, cargo tonnage and air traffic movements narrowing from the previous month. Cargo traffic saw an improvement from the double-digit plunges that had been recorded since November 2008. During July the airport handled a total of 291,000 tonnes of cargo, 4 million passenger trips and 23,315 air traffic movements, representing year-on-year decreases of 8.3%, 9.5%, and 9.9%, respectively.