HONG KONG: The Hong Kong International Airport handled 5 million passengers in November, down 16% from a year earlier, the Hong Kong Airport Authority said in a statement.
The number of flights dropped 8.3% to 32,510 in the period, while cargo throughput declined 3.4% to 450,000 tons.
The airport handled 65.8 million passengers in the first 11 months of the year, down 3.4% from a year earlier.Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday also said that the number was the biggest fall in passenger numbers in more than a decade. The number was the largest fall since June 2009, when the figure fell by 18.7%, data on the Civil Aviation Department's website showed.
There were falls of more than 12% in the three previous months, the Civil Aviation Department data showed. Hong Kong has been gripped by sometimes violent protests since June. Demonstrators halted operations at the airport for several days in August. - Bloomberg/ANN
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