Airport operator CAM recorded a pre-tax profit of 229 million patacas in 2025, according to a statement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.
Last year’s pre-tax profit represented a 40.2 percent decrease from the 383 million patacas recorded in 2024.
The statement noted that the airport recorded 7.52 million passengers and 58,196 flight movements in 2025, down 1.6 percent and 2.9 percent respectively from 2024.
The statement also noted that the airport reached cargo volume of 109,292 tonnes in 2025, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2024.
The statement said that the company’s total annual revenue amounted to 1.35 billion patacas in 2025, a decrease of 8.7 percent from the 1.478 billion patacas recorded in 2024.
Airport’s performance in 2024
According to a statement published by the operator, Macau International Airport Company Limited, in the Official Gazette in May last year, the number of the airport’s passengers and flight movements in 2024 grew by 48.3 percent and 41.1 percent respectively from 2023. The airport’s cargo volume in 2024 surged by 69.4 percent from 2023.
The company’s total annual revenue in 2024 registered a 24.0 percent increase from 2023, according to last year’s statement.
The local airport in Taipa officially opened on December 8, 1995, when Macau was still under temporary Portuguese administration.
The airport’s ongoing expansion project got off the ground in November 2024. The expansion project, with land reclamation covering 129 hectares (1.29 square kilometres), is scheduled to be completed in 2030, raising the airport’s total area to 325 hectares.
The expansion project is reclaiming land in the coastal waters between the airport’s runway and its two current taxiways to expand its apron, creating new space for setting up more aircraft stands and various other new ancillary facilities. The reclamation project will include the construction of two new taxiways, which are expected to be completed in 2028, after which the two current taxiways will be demolished.
Yesterday’s CAM statement also underlined that the airport’s ongoing reclamation and expansion project “is proceeding steadily and on schedule”.
The statement also noted that the airport will start implementing a measure in the fourth quarter of this year according to which its runway will be closed overnight daily to facilitate the expansion project.
The airport operator said early this year that the overnight runway closure will be implemented for three years between October 2026 and October 2029, during which flight operations will be suspended daily between 12 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Yesterday’s CAM statement also reaffirmed that the ongoing construction of Macau International Airport’s upstream cargo terminal in Hengqin is expected to be completed at the end of this year, after which the facility can come into operation in the first half of next year.
This photo taken from Big Taipa Hill earlier this month shows the local airport with its reclamation and expansion project underway. – Photo: Tony Wong
