The number of commercial flights flying in and out of Macau International Airport increased 13.8% year-on-year in the three months to 30 September 2018 to 15,875.
The figure takes the total commercial flight movements for the first nine months of 2018 to 45,728 – up 13.4% on 2017 numbers and including a 19.7% increase in flights to and from mainland China. Flights from Thailand and Taiwan grew 18.5% and 1.5% respectively, however flights to and from Korea fell 14.8%.
Helicopter flight movements between Macau and Hong Kong or Macau and mainland China also increased by 8.8% in 3Q18 to 3,055 and by 6.2% go the first nine months of the year to 9,449.