{"id":777022312,"date":"2025-01-24T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022312"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:26:39","slug":"macau-international-airport-to-increase-flight-frequencies-for-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-international-airport-to-increase-flight-frequencies-for-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau International Airport to increase flight frequencies for Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There will be 58 additional regular and charter flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macau International Airport (MIA) will add <strong>58 additional regular and charter flights <\/strong>to destinations including mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia due to the expected rise in demand for the Chinese New Year holiday, which begins on January 28 and ends on February 4. The airport has reported that flight reservation rates so far exceed 90 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIA is making a 50 per cent reduction in parking fees for up to five consecutive days during the holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday (January 23), <strong>Lei Tak Fai<\/strong>, head of the Public Relations Division of the Public Security Police Force (CPSP) predicted that Macau could record between 5.04 and 5.36m cross-border movements during the holiday. This\u00a0would\u00a0represent\u00a0<strong>an increase of at least 3\u00a0per cent<\/strong>\u00a0compared to\u00a0last year.\u00a0Authorities estimated\u00a0that the city could\u00a0experience\u00a0an average of 630,000 to 670,000 border crossings\u00a0each\u00a0day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lam Tong Hou<\/strong>, head of the Public Relations Division of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), has said that hotel booking rates have reached 80 per cent and are expected to rise beyond 90 per cent. A survey by Morgan Stanley found that average daily rates at hotels are expected to be<strong> 15-40 per cent lower<\/strong> than in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/jp-morgan-expects-modest-year-on-year-ggr-growth-over-macau-cny\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JP Morgan expects \u201cmodest\u201d year-on-year GGR growth during Macau CNY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be 58 additional regular and charter flights.<\/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 anticipates a significant surge in tourism for the Chinese New Year, with 58 additional flights and hotel booking rates exceeding 80%. Authorities project 5.04-5.36 million cross-border movements, a 3% year-on-year increase, despite Morgan Stanley forecasting 15-40% lower average daily hotel rates compared to 2024, prompting JP Morgan to expect only \"modest\" GGR growth.","focusai_entities":"Macau International Airport (MIA), Public Security Police Force (CPSP), Lei Tak Fai, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Lam Tong Hou, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"How do the projected lower average daily hotel rates (ADR) and increased visitation volume collectively impact the overall GGR forecast for Macau's gaming concessions during the Chinese New Year period?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness","query":"What specific operational adjustments and resource allocations have Macau's integrated resorts implemented to manage the anticipated 3% increase in cross-border movements and optimize player yield during this peak holiday?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23632,23907,23906],"class_list":["post-777022312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022312","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=777022312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022338,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022312\/revisions\/777022338"}],"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=777022312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}