After two years of next to no passengers and airline traffic, Hong Kong Airport may never recover its position as an international aviation hub.
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At this time of year, a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to New York is genuinely an around-the-world odyssey, with the Airbus A350 crossing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
In 2019, Hong Kong International Airport handled 71.5 million passengers and 419,730 flight activities. HKIA was a bona fide global aviation hub and, for many passengers, their jumping-off point into Asia.
Covid-19 has tested the mettle of all aircraft lessors and it will be some period before rescue emerges, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, where pandemic-related closures have often been political in nature.