According to information from the Macau airport, tourist arrivals via air during the Lunar New Year reached seventy thousand passengers.

The figures further showed that passenger arrivals reached 14,441 on February 4, 16,718 passengers on February 5, 14,180 entering on February 6, 15,004 on February 7 and 15,431 on February 8.

The Macau airport also said that the operation during the Lunar New Year was normal and there were 31 charter flights in total during that period.

All flights were approved in a timely manner, including five flights to Taipei, six flights to Shanghai, six flights to Tokyo and one flight to Hangzhou by Air Macau; six flights to Taipei by EVA Airways; six flights to Hangzhou by Xiamen Airlines and one flight to Shenyang by China Southern Airlines.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Macau (AACM) stated that as the extra and charter flights were not concentrated within a particular time slot, the operation of the airport in the past two days had been smooth. It is expected that the remaining extra and charter services would not create pressure with the operation of scheduled flights in the coming days.

The AACM received applications from airlines for operating extra and charter services, which the authority handled rapidly.

This was to cope with the market need for air transport resulting from the demand for outbound travels by local residents as well as by Taiwanese business people returning to Taiwan from Mainland China during the Chinese New Year festival.

On February 4 and 5, Macau International Airport recorded 153 and 157 flights, with 14,441 and 16,718 passengers respectively.