Simon Chan Weng Hong, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Macau International Airport Company Limited (CAM), said yesterday that he expects 8.14 million passengers this year, which would be an increase of 8.24 percent from last year’s 7.52 passengers.
Chan made his forecast in a presentation of the single-runway airport’s results last year and its plans and forecasts for this year, during a Chinese New Year (CNY) luncheon hosted by his company for dozens of media representatives.
According to the presentation, the airport suffered a 1.6 percent decrease in passengers last year, when aircraft movements dropped by 2.9 percent to 58,000.
This year, Chan said, CAM expects aircraft movements to reach 63,000, which would be an increase of 8.62 percent.
Cargo volume exceeded 109,000 tonnes last year, a 1.0 percent growth year on year. Business aviation movements rose by 2.0 percent to 1,165 in 2025. This year, CAM expects the airport’s cargo volume to reach 110,000 tonnes and business aviation movements to rise to 1,200.
According to the presentation, CAM’s total revenue last year amounted to 1.35 billion patacas, down by 8.5 percent year-on-year.
Also addressing the luncheon at MGM COTAI, CAM Chairman of the Board of Directors Ma Iao Hong underlined that the airport’s expansion and reclamation project and its Hengqin Upstream Cargo Terminal Project “are steadily advancing.”
Ma said that “these efforts injected new momentum into aviation logistics in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” (GBA).
CAM Executive Committee Chairman Simon Chan Weng Hong gives a detailed presentation about the airport’s results last year and its plans and forecasts for this year during yesterday’s media luncheon at MGM COTAI. – Photo: Harald Brüning
