Macau’s single runway airport handled a record 7.16 million passengers last year, a year-on-year increase of 8 percent, the facility’s operator MIA said in a statement yesterday.
According to the statement, the airport handled about 58,000 aircraft movements (takeoffs and touchdowns) last year, up 2.8 percent.
The statement pointed out that last year’s passenger movement was the highest since the airport started operating 22 years ago, adding that last year’s number of passengers amounted to over 11 times the local population.
