Hong Kong airport returns to normal
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-06 11:01
HONG KONG, August 5 -- The Hong Kong International Airport set a record on
Friday of transporting 160,000 passengers in a single day, according to
statistics released by the airport authority here Saturday.
Operations at the airport have fully recovered since Saturday morning, said
the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA). It added that by 17:00 (0900 GMT)on
Saturday, 592 flights have left or arrived at Hong Kong.
According to the statistics from the authority, 811 flights arrived at or
departed from Hong Kong on Friday, carrying 160,000 passengers, which set a
record of passengers carried within a single day.
Howard Eng, Airport Management Director of the authority, said the
authority's 55,000-plus staffs worked day and night to restore orders and ensure
public security in the airport.
Hong Kong-based carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways announced Saturday that its
flight operations are returning to normal, with the majority of the airline's
1,000 passengers still at the Hong Kong International Airport Saturday morning
being given seats on replacement flights. The airline is still working very hard
to accommodate the 100 passengers still waiting for seats.
Dragonair Airways said that 13 flights have been canceled while more than
1,900 stranded passengers have rebooked or rerouted.
Typhoon Prapiroon on Thursday night made its landfall into west parts of
southern China's Guangdong Province, some 300 km west of Hong Kong, pounding
powerful winds and downpour and disrupting air and sea traffics in Hong Kong.
More than 100,000 passengers were stranded at the airport.
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