Hong Kong International Airport was ranked Asia-Pacific’s fourth-busiest for international passengers for the first eight months of this year, rising sharply from 30th spot last year when the city’s harsh Covid-19 travel restrictions were still in effect.
But industry bodies warned that staffing shortages and supply chain issues remained in the way of the airport recovering fully and reclaiming the No 1 spot it held consistently before the pandemic. It handled 71.5 million passengers in 2019.
Singapore’s Changi Airport ranked first from January to August, with almost 38 million passengers. That was an 84 per cent recovery rate compared with the 45 million it handled in the first eight months of 2019, according to data compiled by Singaporean consulting firm Sobie Aviation.
