{"id":777013220,"date":"2024-02-16T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013220"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:57:25","slug":"macau-airport-sees-110000-air-passenger-movements-in-first-5-days-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-airport-sees-110000-air-passenger-movements-in-first-5-days-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau Airport sees 110,000 air passenger movements in first 5 days of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Numbers represented three quarters of pre-pandemic figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>Macau International Airport <\/strong>saw 110,000 air passenger movements from February 10 to February 14, the first five days of the Chinese New Year. That&#8217;s a 2.4-fold increase compared to the same period last year and represents 76 per cent of pre-pandemic figures. There were 800 takeoffs and landings, a twofold increase year on year and 73 per cent of pre-Covid levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CAM Macau International Airport reported that February 14 saw 25,000 air passenger movements, the highest single-day figure since the beginning of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-898665-tourists-in-first-five-days-of-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">898,665 tourists visited Macau during the first five days of the holiday period<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, Sands China president&nbsp;<strong>Wilfred Wong Ying Wai<\/strong>&nbsp;predicted that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sands-china-president-expects-macau-ggr-to-reach-us2-5bn-this-month\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau could generate up to MOP20bn (US$2.5bn) in GGR<\/a>&nbsp;this month. He also told Macau Daily News that all Sands China hotels were \u201cfully booked\u201d during the first few days of the holiday, which concludes this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers represented three quarters of pre-pandemic figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau experienced a significant tourism resurgence during the initial five days of the Chinese New Year, with air passenger movements reaching 76% of pre-pandemic levels and nearly 900,000 tourist arrivals. This robust recovery has led Sands China's president to project a potential MOP20bn (US$2.5bn) in GGR for the month, indicating strong operational performance for integrated resorts.","focusai_entities":"Sands China, Wilfred Wong Ying Wai, CAM Macau International Airport","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Forecast Implications","query":"How does the projected MOP20bn GGR for February impact the consensus earnings estimates and valuation models for Macau's listed gaming operators?"},{"label":"Sustained Recovery Drivers","query":"Beyond the holiday surge, what underlying factors are expected to sustain Macau's tourism and GGR recovery trajectory throughout 2024, and what are the associated risks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777013220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013251,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013220\/revisions\/777013251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}