"Flights soar 14 pct at Hong Kong airport"

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

Flights soar 14 pct at Hong Kong airport
Agence France Presse


HONG KONG, Oct 18 (AFP) - Flights at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok international
airport soared 14 percent year-on-year in September, aviation authorities
said Wednesday.

Some 15,515 flights arrived and departed the two-year-old airport in
September. Of those, 2,746 or 17.7 percent were cargo flights.

Passenger traffic in September rose 18.1 percent year-on-year, to 2.79
million.

In the first eight months, passenger numbers rose 11.0 percent to 32.88
million compared with the corresponding period in 1999.

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